Hospital Negligence Archives - Page 2 of 2

Four more families come forward over baby deaths at East Kent hospitals

PostedFebruary 11, 2020

Following on from our previous article that reported at least seven preventable baby deaths had occurred at East Kent hospitals, this number has now risen as more families have come...

Extreme pressure on NHS leads to A&E wait times reaching record high

PostedJanuary 10, 2020

Last month there were record-long delays in A&E departments around England, new data has revealed. One in five patients requiring emergency care had to wait over the target four hours...

New strain of strep A emerges in England and Wales

PostedSeptember 18, 2019

A new strain of toxin producing group A streptococcus is spreading across England and Wales. Strep A causes many different infections – ranging from a sore throat to scarlet fever....

Over £26,000 obtained after piece of gastric band was left in body

PostedAugust 30, 2019

Loveness Chihoyi, a chartered legal executive at Ashtons Legal has obtained over £26,000 for a woman who had a piece of her removed gastric band left in her body for...

£7,500 obtained for man who had shards of glass left in arm for months

PostedJuly 25, 2019

Amanda Cavanagh, a medical negligence specialist at Ashtons Legal, has obtained £7,500 for a man who had shards of glass left in his arm for several months after doctors failed...

Hospitals are not treating sepsis quickly enough

PostedJuly 4, 2019

It has been reported that thousands of patients a year are having their lives put at risk due to their sepsis not being treated quickly enough. As soon as sepsis...