News for Individuals

• Operations cancelled as health board faces immense pressures

  • PostedJanuary 7, 2020

  Four hospitals under the Hywel Dda University Health Board have cancelled operations after a weekend of ‘critical pressures’, that have arisen, as described by Dr Philip Kloer, the health board’s...

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• James Paget Hospital: Mother awarded £15,000 for failings over baby death

  • PostedDecember 18, 2019

  There were multiple opportunities to save six-month-old Harris James. He was mistakenly treated for pneumonia, when in fact he had a heart condition. The Trust had apologised to the family...

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• Rehabilitation and Case Management in the claims process

  • PostedDecember 16, 2019

  Unless you have been involved in an accident and sustained a serious injury, or know someone who has, you probably would not have come across a Case Manager or understand...

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• Are online pharmacies killing desperate patients?

  • PostedDecember 11, 2019

  Nigel Parsley, a Suffolk coroner, has expressed the need for action to be taken against online health providers that dispense medication in order to prevent further deaths from occurring. Debbie...

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• Injured lady receives five times more than insurers’ original offer

  • PostedDecember 11, 2019

  Ashtons Legal solicitor Louise Harper has just obtained a settlement of over £14,000 for a Buckinghamshire businesswoman who suffered several broken ribs and a range of other shorter-term injuries after...

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• Advance Decisions to Refuse Medical Treatment

  • PostedDecember 10, 2019

  It is difficult to predict the future, what health concerns you may develop, and the medical treatments you may require. If you were no longer able to make your own...

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• Critical care unit short of nurses ‘almost every night’ for entire year

  • PostedDecember 9, 2019

  In July, the critical care unit at James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough, was given the lowest possible rating by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), the health watchdog. Inspectors found the...

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• Mental health service leaves patients waiting months for urgent help

  • PostedDecember 6, 2019

  It has been revealed that patients in need of a service called Improving Access to Psychological Therapies – NHS England’s talking therapy service – are being left on waiting lists...

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• Watch this space – potentially significant TUPE decision

  • PostedDecember 4, 2019

  The Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 (“TUPE”) protects the rights of employees when the business they work for or the contract they work on transfers to another...

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• Ashtons Legal joins forces with Heslop & Platt

  • PostedNovember 29, 2019

  East Anglian law firm Ashtons Legal is joining forces with Leeds-based Heslop & Platt with effect from 29 November 2019 in order to take a leading position in the UK’s...

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• Bury man pleads with former workmates for info on where he contracted asbestos-related cancer

  • PostedNovember 28, 2019

  A Bury St Edmunds man seriously ill with an asbestos-related cancer is appealing to former colleagues to help him find evidence of where he may have contracted the disease. Ian...

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• Divorce and Mental Wellbeing

  • PostedNovember 27, 2019

  Stephen Williams, leading divorce lawyer, discusses the effects of divorce on the families mental wellbeing. In a recent survey, 80% of mental health patients acknowledged the detrimental effects of their...

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