by Russell Worth | Jan 8, 2015 | Accident at Work, Claims, Injury at Work, News, Personal Injury
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is calling on businesses to review their health and safety policies for the New Year. The regulator, which will celebrate its 40th anniversary this year, is asking businesses to put a stop to a so-called ‘blame’ culture which it...
by Russell Worth | Jan 7, 2015 | Claims, Industrial Disease, mesothelioma, News
An art teacher has died from mesothelioma after being exposed to asbestos through hanging paintings on classroom walls. 60-year-old Jennifer Barnett, of Painswick, Glos, passed away in September 2014. Speaking at the Gloucester inquest into her death, her husband...
by Russell Worth | Jan 6, 2015 | Claims, Medical Negligence, News
A major incident was declared at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge on Tuesday (6th January). The hospital is the seventh to declare a major incident this week, as reports suggest staff are struggling are cope with the level of demand being placed on them....
by Russell Worth | Jan 6, 2015 | Claims, Medical Negligence, News
Waiting times in A&E units across England are at their worst in a decade, official figures show. Government targets in England state that 95 per cent of patients must be seen within a four-hour window, however latest figures from October to December show that just...
by Russell Worth | Jan 5, 2015 | Claims, Medical Negligence, News
The South Western Ambulance Service was dealing with 38% more incidents over the Christmas period, new figures show. The service dealt with 3,205 incidents on 27th December alone – 883 more than that recorded on the same Saturday in 2013. It said that the...
by Russell Worth | Jan 2, 2015 | Claims, Medical Negligence, News
A hospital in Basildon has issued an apology and launched an investigation following two botched operations. The so-called “never events”, used to describe incidents so serious they should never happen, saw surgeons first operating on the wrong part of a patient’s...
