. While mistakes can happen in every area of life, medical mistakes can occasionally lead to serious and long lasting harm. Organisations such as PALS, the...
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. Recent figures indicate that a number of medical professionals have given wrong doses of strong painkillers to more than one thousand patients, in the space...
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. A hospital patient who went in for treatment so that a cyst could be removed, ended up with a testicle being cut off by mistake,...
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. It has emerged that an elderly female has died after a German locum doctor carried out horrifying medical negligence.
An inquest heard that the...
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. It has been revealed that a large portion of hospitals within the UK have wrongly been assessing their own performance.
The blunder could leave the...
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. It has been revealed that on 19 September, a 50-year-old Aberdeen woman died having collapsed at home 2 days earlier.
Whilst ambulance technicians responded...
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. In a bid to reduce medical negligence, a leading obesity drug has been suspended from use in the UK.
Fears of compensation claims being made...
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. It has been revealed that a health board has paid out more than £6million in medical negligence compensation for clinical mistakes in just two years....
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. The Conservative party has stated that junior doctors are being left in charge of hospital accident and emergency departments because of a staff shortage.
A...
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. A leading no win no fee website and the UK’s first independent resource service for individuals looking to file compensation, has revealed shocking medical negligence...
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. A young boy who was left with severe disabilities because of mistakes made during his birth at a hospital in Northamptonshire, has been awarded over...
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. It has been revealed that there are concerns surrounding the Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals, both NHS Foundation Trusts based in Essex.
The two...
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. England’s care regulator this week, published performance ratings for NHS services nationwide, highlighting the positives and negatives of Plymouth’s health bodies.
The survey looks at...
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. In an attempt to reduce medical negligence claims, a healthcare regulator has called for improved monitoring of out-hours-care by NHS Primary Care Trusts (PCTs).
Concerns...
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. The number of patient fatalities and cases of medical negligence within the NHS has been ordered to be disclosed, by the Department of Health....
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. The trial of a doctor accused of medical negligence has begun.
The 53-year-old professional, was accused of the deaths of seven patients and personal injury>...
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. Medical mishaps and negligence nightmares seem to be a huge part of UK life at the moment, as with medical negligence claims on the rise,...
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. In an increasingly image conscious society, more and more people are turning to cosmetic surgery to improve their appearance, but even some of the most...
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. For individuals living in the UK, a looks oriented culture can take it’s toll and influences many to seek out plastic surgery as a route...
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. Over 70 children died last year as a result of NHS mistakes.
The mother of a baby who died just two days after birth may...
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. Injury lawyers are urging Brits to ensure they take extra care when choosing the right surgeon, after research revealed that the number of medical negligence...
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. Many medical negligence claims could be helped if not for an out dated and crippling NHS system, which punishes doctors for mistakes without encouraging them...
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. Gwent Healthcare trust has seen the number of medical negligence and personal injury claims made against it rise by a third in 2008, this rise...
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. A man is considering taking legal action against an NHS hospital following the death of his partner who died from a heart attack during an...
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. It is estimated that one in tewnty people in the UK feel dissatisfied with the diagnosis or treatment they are given by a doctor or...
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. The Penrose inquiry took place recently to look into the supply of contaminated blood and blood products by Scotland NHS. The products were supplied to...
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. An elderly man is fighting for a new legislation to enable victims who have suffered from medical negligence before the National Health Service (NHS) was...
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. A boy, now in his teens, who was left severely brain-damaged at birth, had been awarded millions of pounds in a medical negligence case. Making...
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. It has been revealed that a patient has sued for compensation after she suffered eight years of 'torture' because of medical negligence and lack of...
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. A woman from Wales is suing a cosmetic surgery clinic after she underwent surgery on her face.
The woman, referred to in her notes...
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. As more people cut back on private health insurance as a consequence of losing their jobs and general tightening of household budgets, the number of...
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. It has been revealed that hospitals in Yorkshire have cost the taxpayer 83 million in the last year, after medical negligence claims and botched surgeries...
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. Many people would be shocked that in spite of the sustained media attention medical negligence committed in some NHS Trusts has enjoyed, it appears that...
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. After a damming report by the healthcare commission was released, one Staffordshire hospital has admitted that settling a medical negligence claim could take years, no...
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. Of recent medical negligence has become quite an issue for which a number of NHS Hospital Trusts have received bashing from both the media,...
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. Despite the recent TV adverts raising the awareness of strokes for viewers across Britain, the NHS has failed to recognise the condition itself.
A widow...
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. A doctor accused of medical negligence has been found guilty of manslaughter. Priya Ramnath, 40, administered an adrenalin injection to Patricia Leighton, 51, in 1998...
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. Negligence by doctors is something that needs serious attention given its usually expensive costs, in terms of life or other forms of irreparable damage....
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. As if the economic downturn was not enough to struggle through, the NHS now have to battle a rise in medical negligence claims.
Clinical...
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. A group of six male cancer patients who had their sperm frozen in 2002 following a cancer diagnosis and fears that treatment may have left...
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. A mother has decided to take legal action after medical mistakes and oversights caused the death of her stillborn child, it has been revealed.
Louise...
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. Most students use their campus doctor to help with any bumps and bruises caused by drunken antics from the night before, but it seems after...
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. A woman who came away from what should have been a routine operation with permanent brain damage has won £2.5 million in compensation after a...
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. In several bizarre circumstances, thousands of patients have had to face the unenviable experience of being treated by medical personnel or experts whose inexperience or...
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. Richmond (Canada): A gynaecologist and the Richmond Hospital are being sued for medical negligence in a lawsuit that underscored a problem with waiting lists from...
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. When Clare Bowens five year old daughter entered hospital for a routine operation to remove her spleen, the actions of surgeons set off a chain...
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. Actor Dennis Quaid and his wife Kimberly have reached a $750,000 settlement out of court with the Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre in Los Angeles one year...
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. If properly maintained with the correct documentation of the facts of treatment provided then medical records can be of great importance when defending an allegation...
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. Almost 2,000 cancer patients who were treated at the private Shepton Mallet Treatment Centre by Dutch surgeon Ben Mak have had their results called into...
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. Newly released figures have revealed that the National Health Service in this country has made a total of £2.1 billion in medical negligence payouts since...
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