Injury News Archives - Page 44 of 62

Interim payment of £50k for Mesothelioma, 6 months after instruction

PostedMay 21, 2019

Asbestos-related disease specialist solicitor, Martyn Hayward, has obtained a £50k interim payment for a 79 year old man. Mr R is a retired BT Engineer who was diagnosed with mesothelioma...

£50k interim payment for secondary exposure to asbestos

PostedMay 15, 2019

Martyn Hayward, an asbestos-related disease specialist solicitor, has secured a £50,000 interim payment for secondary exposure mesothelioma. Mrs D has been diagnosed with asbestos related mesothelioma, which was contracted after...

Ashtons Partner attends Zero Suicide Alliance launch

PostedMay 10, 2019

Yesterday (9 May 2019), Ashtons Medical Negligence partner, Sharon Allison, attended the Inaugural launch of the Zero Suicide Alliance (ZSA) in London. This initiative was born largely out of the...

The number of GPs in the UK has dropped for a fourth year in a row

PostedMay 9, 2019

The Nuffield Trust think tank for the BBC has found that the number of GPs per 100,000 people has dropped from 65 in 2014 to 60 in 2018. The decrease...

£7,500 settlement for blind lady who slipped and fractured leg

PostedMay 8, 2019

Louise Harper, a solicitor in Ashtons Personal Injury team, has obtained £7,500 for a lady who suffered a broken leg outside her home. Ms M is blind and lives in...

Woman’s unborn twins die as a result of her pregnancy being misdiagnosed as cancer

PostedMay 8, 2019

A woman whose pregnancy was misdiagnosed as cancer lost both of her unborn twins as a result of the treatment she was given. Serpil Baga, 35, had been experiencing pain...

Tens of thousands of foreign nurses to be recruited by the NHS over the next five years

PostedMay 7, 2019

Tens of thousands of foreign nurses to be recruited by the NHS over the next five years Over the next five years, the NHS plans to recruit tens of thousands...

Contaminated Blood Inquiry: Evidence described as ‘harrowing and chilling’

PostedMay 1, 2019

Yesterday marked the beginning of a two year inquiry into what has been described as the “the worst treatment scandal in the history of the NHS”. In the 1970s and...

Compensation payouts from Suffolk and north Essex hospitals top £69m

PostedApril 30, 2019

The scale of compensation payouts from hospitals in Suffolk and Essex has been revealed – with the amount totalling nearly £70 million in the last three years. The figures, published...

Study finds that 1 in 5 people misdiagnosed with multiple sclerosis had other unrelated conditions

PostedApril 26, 2019

Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a widespread disabling neurological condition whereby the immune system attacks and destroys the fatty tissue that surrounds the nerves. This leads to nerve damage, which affects...

Measles: Half a million UK children missed jab

PostedApril 26, 2019

Analysis by the children’s charity, Unicef, reveals that more than half a million children in the UK alone were not given a crucial measles jab between 2010 and 2017. Globally,...

Woman left unable to walk more than four years on from ‘appalling’ spinal surgery by a neurosurgeon

PostedApril 25, 2019

The care given by neurosurgeon Hussien El-Maghraby has been carefully scrutinised since 2014 and three years on an inquiry has concluded that he must stop performing complex procedures until he...