Medical Negligence
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Those in charge of the NHS in England have announced that a recently devised 10-year-plan may save half a million lives through the increased focus on prevention and early detection....
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Breast cancer is a disease that is generally associated with affecting women, but men get it too. Around 390 men are diagnosed with breast cancer each year in the UK,...
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Hospitals in England are so overcrowded ahead of Christmas that experts say care is being put at risk, with some places having to turn away ambulances because they cannot accept...
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Following on from the article titled ‘Over 40,000 women did not receive cervical cancer screening letters’ it has been reported that 3,591 more woman have been affected by the cervical...
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An Independent Review of the Mental Health Act 1983, chaired by Professor Sir Simon Wessely – Regius Professor of Psychiatry at King’s College London and president of the Royal Society...
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A leading lawyer has invited the new chief executive of a failing mental health trust to meet her, to discuss 18 years’ experience of dealing with families bereaved because of...
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Julie Crossley, a medical negligence specialist at Ashtons Legal, has obtained £60,000 for Mr J, whose wrist fracture was not diagnosed when he was x-rayed in his local hospital in...
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The health secretary, Matt Hancock, has promised to introduce measures that will strengthen protection for staff whistleblowers. This promise comes in the wake of the Gosport War Memorial Hospital scandal...
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The NHS failed to send out over 40,000 letters containing cervical cancer screening information to women in England. 150-200 of these were test results that had come up showing abnormalities,...
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Julie Crossley, a medical injury specialist at Ashtons Legal, has succeeding in obtaining £70,000 for the family of a man who died unnecessarily because his early symptoms of mouth cancer...
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Allied Healthcare, a UK home care provider that helps 13,000 older and disabled people has been warned about its financial sustainability by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) who regulates them....
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The Each Baby Counts project has recently focused on the analysis of cases of stillbirth, neonatal death and babies born with brain damage and investigating the potential factors contributing to...
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