Medical Negligence
-
A woman whose pregnancy was misdiagnosed as cancer lost both of her unborn twins as a result of the treatment she was given. Serpil Baga, 35, had been experiencing pain...
Read more -
Tens of thousands of foreign nurses to be recruited by the NHS over the next five years Over the next five years, the NHS plans to recruit tens of thousands...
Read more -
Yesterday marked the beginning of a two year inquiry into what has been described as the “the worst treatment scandal in the history of the NHS”. In the 1970s and...
Read more -
The scale of compensation payouts from hospitals in Suffolk and Essex has been revealed – with the amount totalling nearly £70 million in the last three years. The figures, published...
Read more -
Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a widespread disabling neurological condition whereby the immune system attacks and destroys the fatty tissue that surrounds the nerves. This leads to nerve damage, which affects...
Read more -
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,...
Read more -
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...
Read more -
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...
Read more -
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...
Read more -
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...
Read more -
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...
Read more -
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...
Read more