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Barts Health NHS Trust placed in special measures
The biggest NHS hospital trust in England, Barts Health NHS Trust, has today (17th March) been placed in special measures following a damning report by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). Issues were raised relating to patient safety and the CQC’s report also revealed...
Shortage of nurses in North Devon
North Devon health trust is short of around 100 nurses, NHS managers have revealed. There should be 1,218 nurses at the trust and Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust is issuing a recruitment drive to boost current numbers. Dr Alison Diamond, chief executive, said: "We...
Woman awarded £5.25m after negligent birth
A woman from Lanarkshire has been awarded £5.25m compensation after a 16-year fight for justice. 40-year-old Nadine Montgomery’s son Sam suffered brain damage during his birth, which Mrs Montgomery claimed was as a result of medics neglecting to give her adequate...
Chronic GP shortage revealed in BBC survey
An investigation by the BBC has revealed that there is a chronic shortage of GPs across the UK after the number of unfilled GP posts quadrupled during the last three years. The BBC Inside Out ComRes survey, which questioned more than 1,000 GPs in the UK, found that...
Man secures £3.9 million for catastrophic seizure
The family of one young man who suffered a catastrophic seizure 14 years ago has succeeded in securing him £3.9 million in damages. The 25-year-old man was born with a thyroid condition which went undiagnosed and untreated for much of his childhood. That was despite...
Clear Law backs calls for improved cancer care
Clear Law is backing calls from a group of MPs, who have called for cancer services to improve in England. The report states that current services for cancer patients have "lost momentum" during the past two years and NHS services need to adapt to cope with the...
Patients left on trolleys for 12 hours at Nottingham’s hospitals
hospital board documents have revealed that patients were left for more than 12 hours on trolleys waiting for treatment at Nottingham’s hospitals. Further, some patients were left in same-sex wards with members of the opposite sex at the Queen’s Medical Centre, due to...
Law firm calls for more support for cancer patients
Law firm Clear Law is calling for cancer patients to receive more support after a survey from leading charity MacMillan warned that over half a million patients are being let down by a number of failings in basic care. The charity estimates that around 512,000 cancer...
900 operations cancelled in West of England in 2015
Over 900 patients have had scheduled surgery cancelled so far this year in the West of England for non-medical reasons, it has been reported. Almost half of those (436) were due to go in for surgery at two Gloucestershire hospitals, with The Great Western hospital in...
NHS launches review into England’s maternity services following report
The NHS is launching a review of maternity services in England following a damning report which identified a “lethal mix” of errors that led to the preventable deaths of eleven babies and one mother at a hospital in Cumbria. The inquiry into the University hospitals...
Study finds patients dying unexpectedly at private hospitals
A new study has suggested that some private hospitals are putting patients’ lives at risk with senior doctors warning that they lack the facilities to deal with emergencies should things go wrong. The Centre for Health and the Public Interest, which is a leading...
New GP contracts in Wales to allow for better care
GPs in Wales will have more time to care for vulnerable patients under a new contract. The deal forms part of a wider plan to improve primary care services and the Welsh Government said the plan will strengthen Wales’ primary care cluster arrangements. Over the next...
Report raises serious concerns about NHS complaints process
A Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO) report has classed more than one in three investigations into deaths or forms of avoidable harm at hospitals as being ‘inadequate’. The report has prompted Dr Katherine Rake, Healthwatch England Chief Executive, to...
Hip fracture patients less likely to survive if released from hospital within five days
A study has shown patients suffering hip fractures are less likely to survive if they’re discharged from hospital within five days. The study, conducted by Umea University in Sweden and published in the British Medical Journal found that, compared with patients who...
Increase in hospital admissions in England
New figures published last week (25th February) by the Health and Social Care Information Centre have revealed NHS hospitals in England dealt with 15.5million admissions during 2013-14. Equating to 42,400 patients every day, the figures showed an increase of 870 on...
Eight-Year-Old Awarded Multi-Million-Pound Compensation Settlement
An eight-year-old girl who lives in constant pain, and has to be fed through a tube, due to admitted errors by hospital staff before her birth has been awarded a multi-million-pound compensation settlement from the NHS. The girl was starved of oxygen during her...
doctors misdiagnose personal trainer’s cancer as a pulled muscle
A 30=year-old man whose rare form of cancer was misdiagnosed by doctors as a pulled muscle is now in a race against time for life-saving treatment in the US. Stuart Brookes was told he had 18 months to live when the lump behind his knee was eventually diagnosed as...
Grandmother who died with broken neck told to simply “take paracetamol”
A grandmother suffering with neck pain passed away after doctors repeatedly failed to admit her to hospital – instead advising her to take paracetamol. 89-year-old Ruby Rice from Norfolk was in fact suffering with a broken neck, and eventually died after she became...
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NHS Trust fined £1.1 million, plus £240,000 per year for medical negligence
The Gloucester hospitals NHS Trust has been fined £1.1 million along with an annual, inflation-linked payment of £240,000 after a woman patient was left with devastating brain injuries as a result of medical negligence. The High Court in London heard how the woman –...
Healthcare company fined £100,000 for death of resident
A residential care company based in Middlesex has been fined £100,000 and ordered to pay costs of £50,000 after an elderly resident of one of their Surrey homes died from scalding injuries. Guildford Crown Court heard how the 89-year-old was receiving personal care...
Dental Negligence
There are very few of us who relish a trip to the dentist, but most of us accept it as a part of life. Sadly, for some it is not just the fear of the drill that worries us; what if the dentist makes a mistake, misses a diagnosis, or their equipment fails leaving you...