Medical Negligence
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It is not enough simply to establish that a medical professional has breached their duty of care and acted negligently to succeed in a claim for medical negligence. To succeed...
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An inquest is opened by a coroner if there are reasons to believe someone has passed away from something other than natural causes. What is the purpose of the inquest?...
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We are delighted to announce that Ashtons Legal’s top tier Personal Injury team and Medical Negligence team have once again been shortlisted for ‘Catastrophic Injury Team of the Year’ at...
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More than 20 families affected by the Nottingham maternity scandal have expressed that they want a completely independent inquiry into maternity services at Nottingham University Hospitals (NUH) NHS Trust. In...
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A recent study has found the most common serious safety errors that were reported on hospital wards in England and Wales over a 10 year period. The study, which involved...
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In a catastrophic case, one of the most pressing issues is securing an interim payment of damages as soon as liability has been established, which essentially means an acceptance on...
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A patient experiencing a mental health crisis was detained in an ambulance for 12 hours as a result of there being no space inside of a Cambridgeshire hospital. The patient...
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A patient mix-up resulted in a woman being wrongly given an invasive gynaecological procedure instead of fertility treatment, a safety report has said. The woman was attending her first ever...
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The parents of a baby who died shortly after his birth are looking for answers about why their son died. Beth and Dan Wankiewicz’s son Clay died from multiple skull...
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The Getting it Right First Time (GIRFT) programme and NHS Resolution have together created a new best practice guide for improving patient safety within the NHS. The guide focuses on...
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A GP has been struck off for failing to spot a patient’s lung cancer and then falsifying medical records several months later in an attempt to conceal this. Dr Adilya...
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An inquest has begun into the death of a 20-year-old woman who died from sepsis following a routine appendix operation. Chloe Rideout first attended Derriford Hospital in Plymouth after she...
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