Medical Negligence
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A recent study performed in Sweden suggests that women who are diagnosed with cancer following a smear test have a greater chance of being cured than women who do not...
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Headline news today was of the huge regional variability in levels of lower limb amputations in those suffering from diabetes. The levels vary from 2 in 10,000 to 22 in...
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The NHS has admitted clinical negligence after two transplant patients were given kidneys that had been taken from a donor who was suffering from an aggressive and rare form of...
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Today it is reported that younger women who suffer heart attacks are more likely than men to die as a result. Women often do not present with the ‘typical’ and...
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A man who was forced to wait outside a hospital in the south-west of England for 25 minutes despite suffering a heart attack is to launch a clinical negligence case....
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The Royal College of GPs has now called for the Health Bill to be scrapped. The college, which represents 34,000 GPs in England, said the overhaul had to be stopped...
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There have been stories in the news recently concerning Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and how many people are going undiagnosed and untreated. At Ashtons Legal we come across a...
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In May this year Norwich Coroner William Armstrong investigated the death of David Thompson, a 21 year old Cambridge University student who died on 22 January 2009. His body was...
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The daughter of a woman who escaped from a hospital and committed suicide has successfully sued the NHS trust responsible for her care for negligence. Carol Savage, 50, was detained...
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The Department of Health have given assurances that they will overhaul the system for making complaints about NHS care, after a survey found that more than two thirds of patients...
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