Injury News

• 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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• 300k fine for the Priory over suicide of a teenage girl

  • PostedApril 23, 2019

  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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• £60,000 obtained for retired carpenter with asbestosis

  • PostedApril 11, 2019

  Phoebe Osborne, an asbestos-related disease claim specialist at Ashtons Legal, has obtained £60,000 for a retired Norfolk carpenter. Mr I, who was exposed to asbestos throughout the early part of...

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• £48,000 obtained for Suffolk man following jaw fracture

  • PostedApril 9, 2019

  Tim Gleave, a personal injury specialist at Ashtons, has obtained a £48,000 settlement for a man whose jaw was fractured when he was kicked in the face by a cow....

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• Family of Benfleet man who died of an asbestos cancer pleads with former workmates for information

  • PostedApril 3, 2019

  The family of a Benfleet man who has died of an asbestos-related cancer are pleading with his former workmates to come forward and help them find out how he contracted...

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• Appeal to hospital workers by Norwich woman’s son to find source of asbestos that killed her

  • PostedApril 2, 2019

  The sons of a Norwich woman who was killed by asbestos she probably inhaled whilst working as a hospital cleaner have appealed to her friends and fellow workers to provide...

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• NHS payout to brain-damaged man

  • PostedMarch 27, 2019

  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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• Lack of cancer doctors is jeopardising care

  • PostedMarch 21, 2019

  The NHS will be unable to provide top quality care for those with cancer if the shortage of cancer doctors in the UK is not resolved. A census of 62...

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• Ambulance service not hitting 111 call targets as a result of low pay

  • PostedMarch 14, 2019

  111 call targets are not being met by The South Central Ambulance Service (SCAS), and it is thought that a lack of recruitment as a result of low pay is...

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• ​Legal Aid limitations highlighted by the Inquest of Molly Russell

  • PostedMarch 12, 2019

  The family of a teenager who took her own life after viewing material about suicide and self-harm on social media has been refused funding to pay for legal advice at...

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• Hertfordshire hospital trust once again rated “requires improvement”

  • PostedMarch 4, 2019

  West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust has been rated “requires improvement” for a second time in a row. Although rated “inadequate” in 2015, this Hertfordshire hospital trust is showing little sign...

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