Medical Negligence

• NHS Reform Bill under Pressure

  • PostedFebruary 3, 2012

  The Royal College of GPs has now called for the Health Bill to be scrapped. The college, which represents 34,000 GPs in England, said the overhaul had to be stopped...

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• Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) often undiagnosed

  • PostedJanuary 19, 2012

  There have been stories in the news recently concerning Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and how many people are going undiagnosed and untreated. At Ashtons Legal we come across a...

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• Settlement agreed following student’s death on Norwich to Cambridge rail line

  • PostedOctober 25, 2010

  In May this year Norwich Coroner William Armstrong investigated the death of David Thompson, a 21 year old Cambridge University student who died on 22 January 2009. His body was...

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• High Court victory for daughter after mother’s suicide

  • PostedMay 4, 2010

  The daughter of a woman who escaped from a hospital and committed suicide has successfully sued the NHS trust responsible for her care for negligence. Carol Savage, 50, was detained...

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• Doubt cast on intended improvements to ‘pointless’ NHS system

  • PostedOctober 13, 2008

  The Department of Health have given assurances that they will overhaul the system for making complaints about NHS care, after a survey found that more than two thirds of patients...

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