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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Josh Halliday North of England correspondent

NHS trust investigated over alleged potential edits to records after death of patient

Prestwich hospital
Prestwich hospital in Manchester is facing the highest level of NHS England intervention. Photograph: AP S (uk)/Alamy

Police are investigating claims that hospital records may have been altered at an NHS trust where three mental health patients died within nine months.

The investigation was launched after a coroner raised concerns that safeguarding logs “may have been edited” after the death of a 17-year-old boy at Prestwich hospital in Greater Manchester.

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