Here are a few stories we have published in the past year.
Claude Bramley
Claude, 83, of Wigston Magna, died in July last year, five days after an operation on his small intestine at Leicester Royal Infirmary.
An inquest held on Tuesday last week found he was not properly monitored throughout his post-operative period.
His widow, Eileen, told the inquest how she begged hospital nurses to help her husband when she realised he was deteriorating – but by the time they contacted doctors, it was too late.
Coroner Catherine Mason said she was so concerned that she would write to the chief executive of the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, Malcolm Lowe-Lauri, and ask that lessons are learnt from the death.
She said: "Documentation was totally inadequate. Mr Bramley was entrusted into the care of nurses by his family and his surgeons. They failed him because they did not attend, monitor, observe and assess him in accordance with his needs."
Joan Adams
The 92-year-old, who lived in Hockley Farm Road, off Hinckley Road, Leicester, died of internal bleeding four weeks after being admitted to hospital in July 2008.
As reported in the Mercury in January, an official investigation by the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman found service failure by the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust and maladministration in the way it handled her son Brian's complaint.
The investigation found that despite early warning signs of dehydration "the clinical team failed to identify her dehydration until after she had developed acute renal failure. The trust failed to get it right".
It also found there was "no action plan when there should have been because Mrs Adams was at risk of pressure sores and that her family should have been kept up to date with her care and treatment."
Amanda Randle, senior safety manager at Leicester's hospitals, said the trust accepted the findings and recommendations and some changes had already been made.
Margot Kennedy
Stroke victim Margot Kennedy, 78, of Groby, died in May 2009 following a six-week stay in hospital.
An inquest held in April last year heard her family found her lying in bed sheets covered in her own faeces, unwashed and unwilling to eat or drink or leave her hospital bed.
The hearing was told she suffered a cardiac arrest, a result of undiagnosed heart problems while on ward three of Leicester General Hospital.
The coroner said it was "accepted that nursing care was far from ideal" but that she did not think it directly caused Mrs Kennedy's death or necessarily contributed to it, but it did cause distress to her family.
In December, the Mercury reported that the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust board had published a report outlining changes it has made in response to the issues raised by Mrs Kennedy's family.
Evelyn McQuone
Evelyn , 96, died in July last year.
Her son, Terence, of Crown Hills, Leicester, made a number of complaints about the treatment she received at the Leicester Royal Infirmary, including that she was left naked in a chair and bloodied needles were left by her bed.
After a face-to-face meeting with NHS Trust bosses in December, an investigation was carried out.
In February, the Mercury reported that the trust had written to Mr McQuone and said steps had been taken to "ensure that lessons are learned".
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