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Jerry Smith ran the Chester Marathon as a member of England Athletics age group team this weekend!
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Car-dooring: time for a new approach?
- 12.09.2017
- EmmaArnold
- Personal-injury, Opinion
As more and more people take to Britain’s streets on bikes, campaign groups say more needs to be done to save lives following car drivers and passengers carelessly opening doors.
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A lack of suitable facilities is putting the UK’s disabled population at risk and, as this story demonstrates, it is not necessarily because no disabled facilities exist, but because they are not maintained and are treated as an afterthought.
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Provide the funding; improve standards of care; save money
- 08.08.2017
- GillEdwards
- Clinical-negligence, Opinion, Clinical-negligence, Opinion, Clinical-negligence, Opinion, Clinical-negligence, Opinion, Clinical-negligence, Opinion, Clinical-negligence, Opinion
There was a 70% increase in 2016 in the number of maternity units having to close their doors to women in labour compared with 2014 and the Chief Executive of the Royal College of Midwives has expressed concern about these latest figures on maternity unit closures.
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The Fallowfield Loop is a designated route for cyclists and pedestrians only, yet we caught on camera a motorbike travelling there at some speed
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Patients with genuine life-threatening conditions reached quicker due to new ambulance target times
- 14.07.2017
- HannahBottomley
- Clinical-negligence, Opinion, Clinical-negligence, Opinion, Clinical-negligence, Opinion, Clinical-negligence, Opinion, Clinical-negligence, Opinion, Clinical-negligence, Opinion
Ambulance target times will change affecting some conditions which would previously have been classified as “life-threatening” (requiring a response in eight minutes) to “emergency” (requiring a response in 18 minutes).
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Hot on the heels of our recent accessibility campaign (watch the video below) this thought provoking video focuses on a radio presenter with Multiple Sclerosis (MS), a condition which she describes as an invisible illness.
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New report suggests preventing patients from full compensation
- 28.06.2017
- HannahBottomley
- Clinical-negligence, Opinion, Clinical-negligence, Opinion
Access to justice is of paramount importance within our society and should be equal for everyone but more and more we are finding some of the most vulnerable in society being denied that access.
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Reducing baby deaths and brain injuries during childbirth
- 21.06.2017
- GillEdwards
- Clinical-negligence, Opinion
In the UK, each year between 500 and 800 babies die or are left with severe brain injury – not because they are born too soon or too small, or have a congenital abnormality, but because something goes wrong during labour.
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Will new NHS Resolution really resolve claims quicker?
- 15.06.2017
- GillEdwards
- Clinical-negligence, Opinion, Clinical-negligence, Opinion, Clinical-negligence, Opinion, Clinical-negligence, Opinion
When patients decide to investigate a potential claim for compensation because they have been injured due to medical negligence, the vast majority of claims relate to treatment under an NHS Trust. The Defendant body for hospital Trusts is the NHS Litigation Authority, but this has recently been renamed to NHS Resolution.
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