by Clear Law | May 23, 2016 | Hospital Negligence, No Fee Medical
‘Sharps’ are needles, blades and other medical instruments used for carrying out healthcare procedures that can cause injury by pricking or cutting the skin. Sharps injuries are a well-known health risk within the health and social care sector. Sharps can become...
by Clear Law | May 17, 2016 | Hospital Negligence, News
Reading Borough Council has been fined £100,000 and ordered to pay costs of £20,000 after a pensioner died from pneumonia brought on by legionnaire’s disease picked up during his stay at one of their care homes. The HSE investigation heard how Lewis Payne, a...
by Clear Law | May 10, 2016 | Hospital Negligence, No Fee Medical
Britain’s National Health Service is, in some opinions, one of the country’s finest achievements; offering free-at-the-point-of-use healthcare, available to everyone, all the time, is an enviable asset for any country, even if it actually costs a lot more to run that...
by Clear Law | May 3, 2016 | Hospital Negligence, No Fee Medical
We’re very lucky to have the NHS in this country, and the huge numbers of devoted doctors and nurses who do all in their power to make sure any time spent in hospital is as painless as possible, however sometimes things go wrong. People do make mistakes, machines can...
by Clear Law | Apr 25, 2016 | Hospital Negligence, No Fee Medical
Pressure Ulcers, also know as pressure sores or bedsores, are injuries that break down the skin and underlying tissue. They are generally caused when an area of skin is placed under pressure for a long or short period of time, and can range in severity from a patch of...