by Clear Law | Mar 30, 2015 | News, No Fee Medical
The family of a pensioner whose death was partly down to failings by Sunderland Royal hospital have received an out-of-court settlement. 75-year-old Jean James died last year after medics at the hospital failed to give her the necessary medication to prevent her from...
by Clear Law | Mar 27, 2015 | News, No Fee Medical
Clear Law is backing calls from MPs to establish a national body to investigate medical accidents happening in England. The House of Commons Public Administration select committee said the service needs to be established immediately to tackle the scale of issues in...
by Clear Law | Mar 27, 2015 | News, No Fee Medical
A medical centre in Barnsley is potentially facing hundreds of legal claims after vaccines were found to have been stored in in a faulty fridge for five years, compromising their effectiveness for patients. Over 500 children now face having to be reinoculated because...
by Clear Law | Mar 26, 2015 | News, No Fee Medical
A leading health think tank has branded NHS services in England the worst they have been since the early 1990s. The King’s Fund review said A&E waiting times, cancer care and operations in general were getting worse, with deficits growing. It acknowledged...
by Clear Law | Mar 25, 2015 | News, No Fee Medical
The Government has apologised following the release of the long-awaited Penrose report, which has given details of how NHS patients were issued with contaminated blood supplies in the 1970s and 80s. Referred to as the NHS’s worst treatment catastrophe in history, the...
by Clear Law | Mar 24, 2015 | News, No Fee Medical
A BBC investigation has found that patients are being “put at risk” by healthcare assistants who are working without sufficient training or supervision. Although Health secretary Jeremy Hunt said previously that training for healthcare assistants was at its highest...
