Medical Negligence
Missing signs of cancer
The Teenage Cancer Trust, a charity dedicated to improving the quality of life and chances of survival for young people with cancer, has recently highlighted a common and serious problem relating to the delay in diagnosing cancer in young people aged 13 – 24 by health professionals.
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Harley Street Cosmetic doctor to face General Medical Council
The Telegraph has reported today that Dr Aamer Khan, a cosmetic doctor, practising in Harley Street, London, is to face a GMC Fitness to Practice hearing later this month.
Medical negligence success at trial
Trials in medical negligence cases are very rare. Kris Inskip today reports a recent success at a trial in Exeter.
Is compensation like winning the lottery?
Medical patients who have been compensated for injury suffered as a result of medical negligence are regularly treated by the media as if they are lottery winners but this couldn’t be further from the truth.
Avoiding delays in diagnosing cancer
Hannah Shaw discusses new measures to encourage early diagnosis of cancer by GPs.
Healthcare in Lancashire Hospitals: learning lessons from change
Heather Lucas examines the debate into whether changes to hospital services actually create more dangers for patients, rather than improving the services available to them.
Freedom to choose your solicitor
Hannah Shaw explains how easy it is to change your solicitor
London Patients spend hundreds of hours stuck in ambulances outside hospital
Figures released by the Health Service Journal reveal that in the first 7 weeks of this year close to 700 London patients requiring emergency hospital treatment spent over an hour waiting in the back of an ambulance outside of hospital because the doctors and nurses in A&E were unable to cope with the number of required admissions.
The new NHS Bill – what’s in it for maternity services?
Midwife Sue Austin is concerned about a bleak future for maternity services in the NHS, and threats to the supply of muffins.
Fatal consequences of negligent doctors who fail to diagnose meningitis
Heather Lucas investigating why it is so important for meningitis to spotted quickly and accurately as the disease can strike fast and the symptoms may be disguised as common, every day illnesses.