Patient deaths and harm at under-fire NHS trust ‘could be next major health scandal’

Patients have died or have been harmed because of care failures at an under-fire NHS trust which staff fear could become the next major health scandal, whistleblowers have claimed.

An investigation by The Independent and Channel 4 into Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust, which treats more than a million patients across Greater Manchester, has uncovered allegations that patients have died in surgery without adequate investigation, while others had their cancer diagnosis delayed.