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12th February 2019
A nurse and mother of two who worked for the NHS for 13 years, was repeatedly told she didn’t have cancer was diagnosed as terminally-ill after doctors incorrectly read her smear test results.Julie O’Connor, 49, had been regularly screened over the past ten years and had raised concerns about abnorm...
7th February 2019
Ashtons Legal has made three senior appointments within their Personal Injury division. Hannah Clarke, Mick Upton and Sarah Barratt have all taken on new roles in the Top Tier regional team.Hannah Clarke is the new Head of Group for Injury Services, taking overall responsibility for the Personal Inj...
4th February 2019
Despite the uncertainty in some other markets, property investment is still regarded as a longer term source of ongoing revenue. If you have the capital and choose to invest it in commercial property rather than domestic stock and then rent it out, then, as with domestic rentals, you have to meet c...
31st January 2019
Sharon Allison, Partner in Ashtons Medical Negligence team, has obtained £450k for the family of a man who sadly died after a delay in cancer treatment.Mr F visited his GP with nocturia in January 2010. His Prostate-Specific Antigen (PSA) levels were tested and he was informed that he had an enlarg...
28th January 2019
Personal Injury Trusts are a way to ensure that when someone receives compensation for a personal injury, money can be properly looked after on their behalf. They will also not be prevented from being entitled to means-tested benefits.What are trusts?One of the more structured ways of ensuring a rec...
24th January 2019
Victoria Adams says she has been left in constant pain and is feeling suicidal as a result of a vaginal mesh operation.The NHS has curbed the procedure over safety concerns after it was found some women were left in agony.Ms Adams, from Standlake in Oxfordshire, is now crowdfunding to have it remove...
21st January 2019
Further to our article below, Theresa May has this afternoon (21 January 2019) announced in her Brexit statement that the £65 fee which millions of EU citizens were going to incur when applying for settled status under the EU Settlement Scheme has been scrapped. There are plans to reimburse those wh...
21st January 2019
In June 2018, an inquiry found that more than 450 patients died after being given “dangerous” levels of drugs. Dr Jane Barton, who was at the centre of the scandal, has faced calls for criminal charges after the inquiry blamed her for prescribing opioid painkillers to elderly patients. Hampshire Con...
7th January 2019
The Prime Minister, Theresa May and the NHS England chief executive Simon Stevens will be releasing the NHS long term plan today. The budget will grow by £20bn a year by 2023. Ahead of the publication, it has already been confirmed that a third of the extra £20bn the NHS will get in 2023 will go on...
2nd January 2019
Controversial court fees, which have been branded a stealth tax on bereaved families, are expected to prompt a surge in probate applications before the hike hits. The new banded fee structure will see the cost of probate soar by thousands of pounds for higher value estates. The current flat fee i...
21st December 2018
There are now plenty of businesses preparing for Brexit, despite no-one still being quite sure what the final deal will look like. With this grows concern over the many staff members businesses have that are citizens of another EU country. Right now, the most significant thing to note is that nothin...
13th December 2018
Following on from the article posted on 15 November 2018 titled “Thousands caught up in 'appalling' cervical screening blunder,” it has emerged that since this issue was last reported on an additional 3,591 women have not received information about NHS cervical cancer screening!Capita, the company c...