Medical
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Following on from the initial report in the Sunday Times in February 2024, it is now confirmed that Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) is conducting an urgent review of 721...
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During Sepsis Awareness Month, it is essential to highlight that despite campaigns to raise public awareness and alert medical personnel of signs and symptoms. Sepsis kills five people every hour...
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Ashtons Legal was instructed in January 2023 on behalf of JD, who had suffered a non-dominant wrist injury, which was missed on X-ray and follow-up by his local Hospital Trust....
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Ashtons was instructed in late 2021 following the death of LB, an 11-year-old child, after a delay in diagnosis of appendicitis. LB was seen by a GP and referred to...
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Ali Masterson, Trainee Legal Executive with the Medical Negligence Team, has obtained a settlement of £10,000 for the family of BB following his death whilst under the care of the...
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Ali Masterson, Trainee Legal Executive in our Medical Negligence team, has obtained a settlement of £25,000 for the family of a woman following her death at the James Paget University...
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The recently called General Election has impacted heavily upon the work of the Government select committees and upcoming drafted legislation. Particularly of note is the work of the Justice Select...
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Finn Kennedy was born at the Oasis Birth Centre, in the Princess Royal University Hospital on 23 June 2021. He sadly died on 1 July 2021 at eight days old....
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Coroner Anna Crawford has found that there was ‘no clinical reason’ for a delay for surgery of five days at Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust, which resulted in the...
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The BBC has reported that they have analysed cancer waiting times in England for 2023, which are the worst on record. For the last 11 years cancer waiting times have...
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The inquest into the death of 51-year-old Christopher Sidle, from North Walsham, concluded today, 22 March 2024, in Norwich in front of Norfolk’s Senior Coroner, Jacqueline Lake. Ashtons Legal are...
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March is Prostate Cancer Awareness Month. Approximately 420,000 men in the UK are living with prostate cancer, and it is the most common cancer among men. Despite over 50,000 new...
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