Inspectors have raised concerns around increased levels of violence, drugs, and the state of buildings at a prison. Independent Monitoring Boards (IMB) also said HMP Huntercombe's leaking healthcare ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. More than 20 former patients or their relatives have revealed how they were "treated worse than animals" and failed by the "awful" ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Traumatised by months of forced feeding and isolation from her family on a secure psychiatric ward, 14-year-old Ruth Szymankiewicz fled her family home through a toilet window and flung herself into a ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

The UK’s care watchdog has been accused of failing to take action against a scandal-hit hospital before a catalogue of failings led to the unlawful death of a child. Ruth Szymankiewicz, 14, died on 14 ...

“Chaotic, scary and really, really intense” – Steph Smith's time working at Huntercombe Hospital was nothing short of harrowing. And as a former mental health patient at the scandal-hit site in ...

Our reporting of the failings of the Huntercombe Hospital in Maidenhead, renamed Taplow Manor, and finally closed in 2023, should act as a warning of what can happen in the mental healthcare sector.