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Encouraging more people to become first aiders and able to administer CPR has the potential to save lives and is something we here at Potter Rees Dolan are fully on-board with.
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Police reject scheme to crack down on drivers overtaking cyclists too close
- 12.10.2017
- EmmaArnold
- Personal-injury, Personal-injury
We filmed a close pass which shows Hugh's bike physically shake with the speed of the car which overtakes him too closely. Watch the video here.
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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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Calls for law change of inquests into stillborn babies
- 06.10.2017
- EmmaArnold
- Clinical-negligence, Clinical-negligence
A baby girl died due to 'gross errors and mismanagement' by a hospital where her parents both work who are now calling for changes into inquests of stillborn babies.
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Cerebral Palsy: what can be done to limit occurrences?
- 06.10.2017
- HannahBottomley
- Clinical-negligence, Clinical-negligence
Not all causes of cerebral palsy may be negligent but poor care and treatment resulting in children being deprived of oxygen before birth can lead to the often significant and life changing injuries associated with cerebral palsy.
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Only with right support can individuals with cerebral palsy reach full potential
- 06.10.2017
- EmmaArnold
- Clinical-negligence, Clinical-negligence
To mark World Cerebral Palsy Day, we look at how cerebral palsy is a complex and often hard to define injury which can mean different things to different people. However, the one thing which seems to be a common theme is that it is only with the right support can individuals with cerebral palsy reach their full potential.
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Two people died after incidents involving spinal surgery
- 05.10.2017
- EmmaArnold
- Clinical-negligence, Clinical-negligence, Clinical-negligence, Clinical-negligence
Spinal surgery has been suspended due to four serious incidents at a North West hospital. where two people died after 'medical complications' between March and August this year.
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Amazing recovery for man who had plasma transfusion after motorcycle accident
- 04.10.2017
- EmmaArnold
- Personal-injury, Personal-injury, Personal-injury, Personal-injury, Personal-injury, Personal-injury
Our client became the first patient to have plasma transfusion by northern air ambulance just days before its introduction. John Beaumont suffered spinal fractures and brain herniation when he was involved in a collision with a car when riding his motorcycle in Kendal.
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Newborn baby girl dies at just one day old after medical staff failings
- 03.10.2017
- EmmaArnold
- Clinical-negligence, Clinical-negligence, Clinical-negligence, Clinical-negligence
A Manchester hospital has apologised after a one-day-old baby girl died under their care. Baby Niamh passed away after being delivered at North Manchester General Hospital when her mother's labour was not properly managed.
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Hospital failures cause baby to die three hours after delivery
- 21.09.2017
- EmmaArnold
- Clinical-negligence, Clinical-negligence, Clinical-negligence, Clinical-negligence
A newborn baby died after staff at a Manchester hospital 'dismissed and ignored' his mother's concerns whilst pregnant.
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