Medical Negligence

• GPs claiming up to £88m for non-existent patients

  • PostedJune 12, 2019

  An investigation has begun by the NHS Counter Fraud Authority after it was found that in 2018 there were 3.6 million more patients registered to GPs than there were people...

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• Adolescent mental health unit rated ‘inadequate’ and deemed unsafe

  • PostedJune 6, 2019

  The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has threatened to close a mental health hospital in Northampton after inspectors found it to be unsafe and operating far below the expected standard. The...

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• Torbay Hospital under Investigation after MRI Scan Death

  • PostedMay 23, 2019

  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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• Ashtons Partner attends Zero Suicide Alliance launch

  • PostedMay 10, 2019

  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 number of GPs in the UK has dropped for a fourth year in a row

  • PostedMay 9, 2019

  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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• Woman’s unborn twins die as a result of her pregnancy being misdiagnosed as cancer

  • PostedMay 8, 2019

  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

  • PostedMay 7, 2019

  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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• Contaminated Blood Inquiry: Evidence described as ‘harrowing and chilling’

  • PostedMay 1, 2019

  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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• Compensation payouts from Suffolk and north Essex hospitals top £69m

  • PostedApril 30, 2019

  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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• Study finds that 1 in 5 people misdiagnosed with multiple sclerosis had other unrelated conditions

  • PostedApril 26, 2019

  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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• Measles: Half a million UK children missed jab

  • PostedApril 26, 2019

  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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• Woman left unable to walk more than four years on from ‘appalling’ spinal surgery by a neurosurgeon

  • PostedApril 25, 2019

  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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