by Clear Law | Mar 2, 2015 | News, No Fee Medical
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...
by Clear Law | Mar 2, 2015 | News, No Fee Medical
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...
by Clear Law | Mar 2, 2015 | News, No Fee Medical
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...
by Clear Law | Mar 2, 2015 | News, No Fee Medical
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...
by Clear Law | Mar 2, 2015 | News, No Fee Medical
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...
by Clear Law | Feb 23, 2015 | News, No Fee Medical
A mother has been given £25,000 in compensation after midwives made a number of errors which resulted in her baby girl being stillborn. Hull and East Yorkshire hospitals Trust admitted the baby would have been healthy had gross errors not been made during the woman’s...
