NHS Archives - Page 24 of 27

When is a pain not a pain?

PostedDecember 4, 2017

In the news recently is the successful case of ‘J’ who sustained a brain injury shortly before birth and now has cerebral palsy and a number of difficulties, including learning and behavioural...

Care funding – where do I start?

PostedNovember 24, 2017

This week we have heard from C4’s Dispatches and BBC Woman’s Hour how complicated and confusing our system for funding care can be. The different branches of health and social...

Children with complex medical conditions struggle to get out of hours and weekend palliative care

PostedNovember 15, 2017

It is estimated there are 40,000 children living with life-limiting and life-threatening conditions in England alone. A new report by the charity Together for Short Lives describes the commissioning of...

Inquest into death of a Suffolk man, who died whilst an inpatient at Ipswich Hospital

PostedNovember 6, 2017

An inquest opens on Wednesday (8 November) at Ipswich Coroner’s Court into the death of John Scott, an Ipswich man who was found hanged in a toilet cubicle at Ipswich...

£25,000 obtained for inappropriate breast reconstruction following a mastectomy

PostedOctober 31, 2017

Julie Crossley, a medical negligence lawyer at Ashtons Legal, has obtained £25,000 for a lady who suffered inappropriate breast reconstruction following a mastectomy. Ms S underwent a mastectomy due to...

£25,000 for lady following incorrect medical procedures

PostedOctober 25, 2017

Julie Crossley, a medical negligence lawyer at Ashtons Legal, has obtained £25,000 for a lady whose treatment for bunions was inappropriate and has left her needing to purchase orthotics in...

£20,000 obtained for failure to diagnose prostate cancer

PostedOctober 17, 2017

Julie Crossley, a medical negligence specialist at Ashtons, has obtained a £20,000 settlement for a man whose prostate cancer was not diagnosed until it had progressed, after doctors missed an...

Inquest into death of a Cambridge woman, who died whilst an inpatient at Fulbourn Hospital

PostedSeptember 20, 2017

The inquest is taking place this week at Huntingdon Town Hall into the death of a Cambridge woman, Hannah Allum, who took her own life whilst in a mental hospital....

Unknown breast surgery patients urged to come forward

PostedSeptember 14, 2017

In the press today is news of the £37 million in compensation payments which have been awarded to around 750 patients of the disgraced breast surgeon Ian Paterson. Back in...

Common questions about care home funding

PostedSeptember 5, 2017

Often care funding is something, like Alzheimer’s, that is associated with getting older. Whilst it is true that as a nation we are living longer, resulting in more of us...

False sense of security and weak passwords amongst NHS Staff

PostedSeptember 1, 2017

In May 2017, the NHS was attacked by ransomware (software that threatens to publish information unless a ransom is paid) which disabled computers and left clinicians unable to access patients’...

Officials at Public Health England (PHE) say that the amount of activity people do starts to tail off from the age of 40

PostedAugust 25, 2017

They are urging those between the ages of 40 and 60 to start taking regular brisk walks as just ten minutes a day could have a major impact, reducing the...