by Russell Worth | Nov 17, 2014 | Medical Negligence, News
Measures are being put in place to ease pressure on services at Colchester Hospital after it declared a “major incident” last week. Following an inspection by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) last Wednesday, the hospital trust announced that it was operating over...
by Russell Worth | Nov 11, 2014 | Medical Negligence
A 10-year-old boy who suffered kidney failure after he was born with a condition which was negligently managed at a private hospital has won a compensation package worth almost £5 million to pay for the lifetime of care he will need. The boy was born with a congenital...
by Russell Worth | Nov 3, 2014 | Medical Negligence
A 12-year-old boy, who was left facing a lifetime of acute disability when he suffered brain damage during his hospital birth, has been assured of a multi-million-pound compensation pay-out after an NHS trust conceded 85 per cent liability for his injuries. The...
by Russell Worth | Oct 28, 2014 | Medical Negligence
The number of nurses to each patient in the UK has dropped in the last four years, official figures show. Statistics from the House of Commons Library show that, in May 2014 the number of nurses in the UK had fallen to 5,182 per million people compared to 5,364 in May...
by Russell Worth | Oct 22, 2014 | Medical Negligence
The NHS is to recruit around 260 additional doctors this winter, in an effort to ease the pressure on England’s accident and emergency units, Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has said. An aging population is putting pressure on services, the Department of Health said, and...
by Russell Worth | Oct 15, 2014 | Medical Negligence
A study of lung cancer cases in Britain has suggested doctors are “missing opportunities” in identifying lung cancer early, meaning one in three sufferers of the disease dies within 90 days of being diagnosed. The study, carried out by scientists at the University of...
