by Clear Law | Mar 13, 2015 | News, No Fee Medical
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...
by Clear Law | Mar 13, 2015 | News, No Fee Medical
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...
by Clear Law | Mar 10, 2015 | News, No Fee Medical
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...
by Clear Law | Mar 9, 2015 | News, No Fee Medical
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...
by Clear Law | Mar 4, 2015 | News, No Fee Medical
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...
by Clear Law | Mar 3, 2015 | News, No Fee Medical
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...