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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Matthew Weaver

90 deaths at hospital in Brighton being investigated as possible manslaughter

Brighton’s Royal Sussex County hospital
The inquiry is examining claims of medical negligence and cover-up in the general surgery and neurosurgery departments of Brighton’s Royal Sussex County hospital between 2015 and 2021. Photograph: Simon Dack News/Alamy

The number of patient deaths being investigated as possible manslaughter at a troubled NHS hospital has more than doubled to 90, the Guardian can reveal.

The growing number of allegedly suspicious deaths, up from an initial total of 40, has forced Sussex police to ask the Home Office for extra resources in dealing with its expanding inquiry into University Hospitals Sussex (UHSussex), known as Operation Bramber.

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