‘Litany of failures’ in case of patient killed on NHS mental health ward

An inquest has heard that staff falsified records, slept and were on their phones on the night that Hugo Flint-Cahan was killed by another patient. Hugo’s brother, who is an NHS doctor, said there had been a “litany of failures” and blamed “incompetence and dishonesty” on the part of staff. Also on the programme: As tech stocks fall around the world, we ask what the consequences could be for the global economy. And the renowned oncologist Professor Ian Smith tells us about witnessing half a century of improvements in the treatment of breast cancer.