by Clear Law | May 27, 2015 | Downloads, Factsheets & Guides, Hospital Negligence, No Fee Medical
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...
by Clear Law | May 8, 2015 | News, No Fee Medical
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...
by Clear Law | May 7, 2015 | News, No Fee Medical
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...
by Clear Law | May 1, 2015 | News, No Fee Medical
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...
by Clear Law | May 1, 2015 | News, No Fee Medical
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...
