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Care Home Negligence
If you or someone you care for has been injured or hurt while under the protective care of a care home, you might be entitled to make a claim for compensation. Care home negligence is defined as when someone who lives in a care home is subjected to poor, or...
Compensation for mistakes with Anaesthetics
Every year a huge number of operations are carried out throughout the UK and most are performed perfectly; however sometimes this is not the case and situations may arise to the detriment of the patient. Anaesthetic during surgery is almost always crucial, as the...
The Definition of Medical Negligence
Almost all doctors and other medical professionals maintain incredibly high standards of practice, but with a lot of medical treatments there is often a high level of risk involved, and sometimes mistakes do happen. In all cases where yourself, your child or your...
Misdiagnosed with Terminal Cancer
A diagnosis with cancer is a life-changing moment; it can be one of the most terrifying times in your life, throwing your entire future into jeopardy. To be told that your cancer is terminal, and that the best-case scenario would be a dangerous and painful course of...
NHS sets aside a quarter of its budget for medical negligence claims
The NHS Litigation Authority, responsible for indemnifying the service against legal action, has set aside over £26 billion to cover the costs of medical negligence for existing and future liabilities. Last year over £1.3 billion was paid out to cover medical...
Misdiagnosis
When a patient seeks medical help, he or she naturally trusts their doctor or healthcare professional to perform the necessary steps to try and determine what is the cause of their symptoms. In most cases this can be done swiftly and appropriate treatments can be...
How to complain about the NHS
If you have been treated by the National Health Service and you’re not completely satisfied with the care you have received, or if you have been refused treatment for a condition, you have the legal right to complain to the NHS. In addition to this, you have the right...
Dental Negligence Claims
Modern dentistry has moved on leaps and bounds over the past few decades. Long gone are the days of tying teeth to pieces of string and slamming doors; even the most feared dentists’ drills have become less terrifying through advances in designs cutting down on noise...
Where can medical negligence occur?
Contrary to popular opinion, medical negligence doesn’t just occur in hospitals and can essentially happen anywhere. Below, we look at some of the most common places that medical negligence can occur. In the home – Elderly people are most likely to be at risk of...
The 5 most common forms of medical negligence
We are very fortunate to have access to an outstanding health service in the UK, with medical staff who work tirelessly to care for us when we are ill or injured. However, regrettably, things can and do go wrong (a term referred to as medical negligence) and some...
Trust revealed as having highest number of safety breaches in England
Colchester hospital University Trust has been revealed as having the largest number of serious safety breaches in the last year in England. Nine so-called “never events” took place at the hospital trust – up from one in 2013-14. “Never events” are so called because...
Wheelchair-bound man awarded seven-figure compensation sum
A father-of-four, who faces life in a wheelchair after doctors failed to treat a back injury with sufficient urgency, can look forward to a better future after securing a seven-figure settlement of his compensation claim against the NHS. After the gentleman suffered a...
BMJ warns NHS ‘stretched close to breaking point’
The country’s leading medical journal, the British Medical Journal (BMJ) this week (29th April) warned that the NHS is ‘stretched close to breaking point’ with public safety at risk. In an open letter, the BMJ editor-in-chief, Dr Fiona Godlee, and staff described the...
Young boy diagnosed with tonsillitis died of meningitis
A four-year-old boy died after doctors failed to diagnosis him with meningitis; instead treating him for tonsillitis, the little boy’s mother has claimed. Danny Pearce had been taken to South East London’s Lewisham hospital when he began vomiting and not being able to...
Woman misdiagnosed with breast cancer speaks out
A woman who was wrongly told that she was suffering with breast cancer after doctors mixed up her medical notes with those of another patient has been speaking out about her ordeal. 39-year-old Elizabeth Davies underwent extensive surgery after having a right breast...
Concerns raised regarding private GP out-of-hours care
In the first study of its kind, researchers have discovered that patients who are receiving care from out-of-hours commercial providers are reporting poorer ratings compared with NHS providers or not-for-profit organisations. Researchers from the University of Exeter...
Study finds risk factors of late cancer diagnosis
A major study has found that female, older or single cancer sufferers are more likely to be diagnosed at a later stage, when the cancer is harder to treat. Researchers from Leeds University said that older people may be at greater risk of late diagnosis as they are...
Popularity of cosmetic dental treatments soars
New figures suggest that increasing numbers of people are opting for cosmetic treatments in a bid to get the perfect smile, but it could come at a price. In 2014, the UK’s top-earning private dentists recorded a collective turnover of nearly £1billion– up by 22 per...
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How to complain if you are unhappy about surgery or procedure
Everyone has the right to decent healthcare; the National Health Service’s own constitution provides assurance that anyone who is not content with the standard of care that they have received has the right to complain, the right to have that complaint investigated...
£2.25 Million settlement for newborn brain damage
When Baby Thomas was born 10 weeks early, there was naturally concern about his well being, but in accordance with responsible practice he was put into an incubator and transferred to the specialist baby care unit of Greenwich hospital. Tragically, he later developed...
£75,000 Payout for delayed diagnosis
When a 35 year-old woman attended the Accident and Emergency department at Kings College hospital suffering from acute abdominal pain, she was unconvinced when she was sent home with a diagnosis of IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome). The severe pain continued and she...