Medical Negligence Archives - Page 28 of 38

Black women five times more likely to die during childbirth than white women

PostedJuly 17, 2019

British figures have revealed that black women are now five times more likely than white women to experience death as a result of pregnancy complications. These shocking figures were released...

Ashtons Partner awarded APIL Fellowship

PostedJuly 5, 2019

Sharon Allison, a Partner within the Medical Negligence team at Ashtons Legal, has been accredited with a Fellowship by The Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL.) The association is made...

Hospitals are not treating sepsis quickly enough

PostedJuly 4, 2019

It has been reported that thousands of patients a year are having their lives put at risk due to their sepsis not being treated quickly enough. As soon as sepsis...

Patients harmed due to bed shortages in intensive care unit

PostedJuly 2, 2019

Following inspections of both James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough and Friarage Hospital in Northallerton, South Tee’s Hospitals Trust’s intensive care has been given the worst possible rating of inadequate....

Over £48,000 obtained for nerve damage following surgery

PostedJune 28, 2019

Loveness Chihoyi, Trainee Legal Executive in Ashtons Medical Negligence team, has obtained over £48,000 for a woman who suffered with nerve damage following surgery on her wisdom teeth. Mrs P...

Torbay Hospital under Investigation after MRI Scan Death

PostedMay 23, 2019

The Health Watchdog is conducting an investigation into the death of a 14-year-old girl following an MRI scan. Alice Sloman, from Torbay had autism and was given an anaesthetic for...

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...

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...