Medical Negligence
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The Health Watchdog is conducting an investigation into the death of a 14-year-old girl following an MRI scan. Alice Sloman, from Torbay had autism and was given an anaesthetic for...
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Yesterday (9 May 2019), Ashtons Medical Negligence partner, Sharon Allison, attended the Inaugural launch of the Zero Suicide Alliance (ZSA) in London. This initiative was born largely out of the...
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The Nuffield Trust think tank for the BBC has found that the number of GPs per 100,000 people has dropped from 65 in 2014 to 60 in 2018. The decrease...
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A woman whose pregnancy was misdiagnosed as cancer lost both of her unborn twins as a result of the treatment she was given. Serpil Baga, 35, had been experiencing pain...
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Tens of thousands of foreign nurses to be recruited by the NHS over the next five years Over the next five years, the NHS plans to recruit tens of thousands...
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Yesterday marked the beginning of a two year inquiry into what has been described as the “the worst treatment scandal in the history of the NHS”. In the 1970s and...
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The scale of compensation payouts from hospitals in Suffolk and Essex has been revealed – with the amount totalling nearly £70 million in the last three years. The figures, published...
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Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a widespread disabling neurological condition whereby the immune system attacks and destroys the fatty tissue that surrounds the nerves. This leads to nerve damage, which affects...
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Analysis by the children’s charity, Unicef, reveals that more than half a million children in the UK alone were not given a crucial measles jab between 2010 and 2017. Globally,...
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The care given by neurosurgeon Hussien El-Maghraby has been carefully scrutinised since 2014 and three years on an inquiry has concluded that he must stop performing complex procedures until he...
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The Priory Group, a provider of mental health care facilities in the UK, has been fined £300,000 after 14-year-old Amy El-Keria was found hanged in her room whilst under their...
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A compensation package amounting to around £6.2m has been won by a man that contracted encephalitis at the age of one, leaving him with severe disabilities – including epilepsy, behavioural...
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