Medical Negligence

• One in five births sees a maternity care mistake being made

  • PostedDecember 21, 2017

  Over the last two years, 276,767 incidents regarding maternity care were recorded by hospital staff in England. This is the equivalent of one incident for every five births. The majority...

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• When is a pain not a pain?

  • PostedDecember 4, 2017

  In the news recently is the successful case of ‘J’ who sustained a brain injury shortly before birth and now has cerebral palsy and a number of difficulties, including learning and behavioural...

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• Children with complex medical conditions struggle to get out of hours and weekend palliative care

  • PostedNovember 15, 2017

  It is estimated there are 40,000 children living with life-limiting and life-threatening conditions in England alone. A new report by the charity Together for Short Lives describes the commissioning of...

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• Inquest into death of a Suffolk man, who died whilst an inpatient at Ipswich Hospital

  • PostedNovember 6, 2017

  An inquest opens on Wednesday (8 November) at Ipswich Coroner’s Court into the death of John Scott, an Ipswich man who was found hanged in a toilet cubicle at Ipswich...

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• £25,000 obtained for inappropriate breast reconstruction following a mastectomy

  • PostedOctober 31, 2017

  Julie Crossley, a medical negligence lawyer at Ashtons Legal, has obtained £25,000 for a lady who suffered inappropriate breast reconstruction following a mastectomy. Ms S underwent a mastectomy due to...

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• £25,000 for lady following incorrect medical procedures

  • PostedOctober 25, 2017

  Julie Crossley, a medical negligence lawyer at Ashtons Legal, has obtained £25,000 for a lady whose treatment for bunions was inappropriate and has left her needing to purchase orthotics in...

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• £20,000 obtained for failure to diagnose prostate cancer

  • PostedOctober 17, 2017

  Julie Crossley, a medical negligence specialist at Ashtons, has obtained a £20,000 settlement for a man whose prostate cancer was not diagnosed until it had progressed, after doctors missed an...

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• Inquest into death of a Cambridge woman, who died whilst an inpatient at Fulbourn Hospital

  • PostedSeptember 20, 2017

  The inquest is taking place this week at Huntingdon Town Hall into the death of a Cambridge woman, Hannah Allum, who took her own life whilst in a mental hospital....

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• Unknown breast surgery patients urged to come forward

  • PostedSeptember 14, 2017

  In the press today is news of the £37 million in compensation payments which have been awarded to around 750 patients of the disgraced breast surgeon Ian Paterson. Back in...

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• False sense of security and weak passwords amongst NHS Staff

  • PostedSeptember 1, 2017

  In May 2017, the NHS was attacked by ransomware (software that threatens to publish information unless a ransom is paid) which disabled computers and left clinicians unable to access patients’...

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• Officials at Public Health England (PHE) say that the amount of activity people do starts to tail off from the age of 40

  • PostedAugust 25, 2017

  They are urging those between the ages of 40 and 60 to start taking regular brisk walks as just ten minutes a day could have a major impact, reducing the...

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• Maternity services at a health trust at the centre of a baby deaths inquiry must improve say inspectors

  • PostedAugust 17, 2017

  Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt ordered an investigation into the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust in April. The Care Quality Commission (CQC) report said overall care had got better but...

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