Compensation agreed for brain injury victim
The long-team healthcare of a boy left with brain damage following medical negligence is secure after the family received £6million in compensation. Staff at New Cross Hospital in Wolverhampton failed...
View ArticleSunderland hospital pay-outs reach £6million
City Hospitals Sunderland has paid out £6,237,445 in compensation due to negligence, an increase of £1.6million within the last year, reports by Sunderland Echo. Many of the claims were in regards to...
View ArticleThe Mid-Staffordshire Medical Negligence Scandal Timeline
Following the publication of the damning Mid-Staffordshire report, the NHS can expect an ‘explosion’ of medical negligence claims, according to the Law Society Gazette. A spokesperson for the NHS...
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New Regulations to Protect Patients from ‘Sharp’ Injuries
New regulations to protect patients from sharp objects have been implemented, according to an article by the Health and Safety Executive. The Health and Safety (Sharp Instruments in Healthcare)...
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Doctors Warn A&E Must Change – Or Face Collapse
The College of Emergency Medicine and the Foundation Trust Network have proposed drastic and urgent changes to the NHS’s A&E units, and have warned that the system is at risk of collapse, according...
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Increase in Children’s Eye Cancer Misdiagnosis
The Childhood Eye Cancer Trust has released figures which show that children and babies with retinoblastoma are increasingly delayed essential treatment due to GPs missing the symptoms of the eye...
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Data linking diabetes drug with cancer went unpublished
As concerns about the clarity of the pharma industry grow, more troubling information has been found as a result of an investigation by the British Medical Journal and Channel 4’s Dispatches....
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Untrained staff performing dangerous procedures on NHS wards
NHS staff are often given no formal training before being left to treat patients on hospital wards, with nursing assistants being told to carry out the work of doctors in some hospitals. That’s...
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Thousands of nurses dropped from NHS
Official figures released by the Health and Social Care Information Centre have shown that the UK health service has lost more than 5,000 nurses in only three years. According to the data, whilst in...
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NHS spends millions on cover-ups
Within a period of three years, those in the highest positions at the NHS have been found to have paid out £4million in silencing possible whistle-blowers. The Daily Mail reports as many as 266...
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Survey finds A&E departments are understaffed by 10%
A survey of 166 NHS hospital trusts has found 101 had a total of 1,260 vacant posts. The survey, which was conducted by BBC 5 live, also found that London was the most heavily understaffed area with...
View ArticleUprising against NHS changes
Outside a Conservative party conference in Manchester hoping to discuss the latest proposals regarding the NHS and benefits, 50,000 protestors gathered to oppose the next round of austerity measures...
View ArticleFirst4Lawyers survey results
Following the onslaught of stories reported by national newspapers every day, we at First4Lawyers conducted a nationwide survey of the United Kingdom to discover what its citizens truly think about our...
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How dangerous is visiting your doctor?
For the first time in UK history a nationwide inspection of GP surgeries has taken place, and the findings are shocking. The Care Quality Commission visited more than 900 surgeries over the last few...
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