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According to NHS Digital, more than 33,000 nurses walked away last year, piling pressure on understaffed hospitals and community services. This represents a rise of 20% since 2012-13 meaning that...
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According to NHS Digital, more than 33,000 nurses walked away last year, piling pressure on understaffed hospitals and community services. This represents a rise of 20% since 2012-13 meaning that...
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2018 has kicked off with the NHS in the headlines once again. We have been told that 83% of patients now arriving in Accident and Emergency are waiting longer than...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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