Articles posted in 2012
NHS set to impose £500 fines on hospitals who allow their patients to suffer from bedsores
Clinical Negligence News : 28 May 2012
NHS bosses in Worestershire and across the region are due to be fined £500 for every time an NHS patient suffers from a serious bed sore
Regulation of Claims Management Companies set to be tightened following Ministry of Justice consultation
Industry News : 24 May 2012
The Ministry of Justices’ regulation of claims management companies is due to be concentrated on in a planned consultation on how the regulating can be tightened.
NHS pay multi million pound compensation after removing the wrong part of paramedics brain
Clinical Negligence News : 24 May 2012
Retired paramedic John Tunney, 63, has been awarded a seven-figure sum from University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS trust after they admitted liability for removing the wrong part of the paramedics brain.
GPs at risk of facing medical negligence claims as new research discovers 1 in 20 prescriptions contains an error
Clinical Negligence News : 17 May 2012
Research carried out by the General Medical Council based on a sample of GPs in England has found that up to 1 in 20 prescriptions contains some sort of error.
Internationally renowned composer left wheelchair-bound after hospital misdiagnosis
Clinical Negligence News : 17 May 2012
Andrew Downes, an internationally renowned composer, has won his medical negligence case against Russells Hall Hospital in Dudley where he was treated after suffering a spinal cord injury
Hospital negligence leaves young mother braindead
Clinical Negligence News : 14 May 2012
A tragic hospital error has left a young mother of three in a coma-like state for the rest of her life.
Lincolnshire Hospital Trust awards £10.8m clinical negligence award to 11 year-old Milly
Clinical Negligence News : 10 May 2012
Milly Evans, an 11-year old girl who suffered tragic injuries at birth was awarded compensation worth £10.8 million at London’s High Court on Monday- a sum which is thought to be one of the highest awarded for clinical negligence.
Lord Bach: LASPO is ‘outrageous legislation’
Industry News : 9 May 2012
Only days before the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders bill receives royal assent to become an act, Lord Bach, the peer who led Labour’s opposition to the in the House of Lords has stepped down as shadow legal aid minister.
Insurers promised a crack down on whiplash culture
Industry News : 3 May 2012
Tougher action on the whiplash academic was promised to insurers yesterday at the insurance summit.
Clarke to announce tougher measures for Whiplash Claims on 2nd May 2012
Industry News : 30 April 2012
The number of whiplash claims is hoping to see a decline following tougher measures which are due to be set out by the Government this week.