Three years after The Independent first published a damning investigation into the Huntercombe Group Hospitals, new court documents reveal fresh claims that children were subject to inhumane, degrading and abusive treatment in ‘prison-like’ units – as families take legal action against 35 doctors. Rebecca Thomas reports
Force-fed and drugged into a ‘comatose’ state: ‘Horrifying’ allegations against children’s hospitals … from the Independent Rebecca Thomas