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NHS needs to learn from mistakes and improve reporting
- 20.09.2017
- EmmaArnold
- Clinical-negligence, Clinical-negligence
Medical negligence leading to cerebral palsy and other brain injuries could be reduced if reporting was at a higher standard. A new report from NHS Resolution analysed 50 claims between 2012 and 2016 and found the number of patients born with cerebral palsy and brain injuries remained the same.
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Concussion to be diagnosed by app that records pupil changes
- 19.09.2017
- EmmaArnold
- Personal-injury, Personal-injury
A new smartphone app measures the change in pupil size to identify concussion and other brain injuries.
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Guilty plea by NHS Trust over epileptic teenager's death
- 18.09.2017
- EmmaArnold
- Clinical-negligence, Clinical-negligence, Clinical-negligence, Clinical-negligence
The NHS trust where a patient drowned in a bath after an epileptic seizure has admitted guilt over his death. Connor Sparrowhawk was 18 years old when he sadly died after drowning in a bath at Slade House in Oxford in 2013.
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Calls for antibiotic treatment of Group B Strep for women in labour
- 14.09.2017
- EmmaArnold
- Clinical-negligence, Clinical-negligence, Clinical-negligence, Clinical-negligence
Hundreds of newborn babies a year in the UK catch GBS with two in every 20 infected babies developing a disability and one in every 20 sadly passing away. But, with prompt treatment, most can make a full recovery.
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Post code lottery for access to psychiatrists in the UK
- 13.09.2017
- EmmaArnold
- Clinical-negligence, Clinical-negligence, Clinical-negligence, Clinical-negligence
People with a severe mental illness are being let down by the huge discrepancies in consultant psychiatrist numbers across the country.
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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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Needless death of teenage forklift truck driver
- 06.09.2017
- RichardEdwards
- Personal-injury, Personal-injury, Personal-injury, Personal-injury
A firm has been fined £450,000 after the "needless" death of 19 year old Ben Pallier-Singleton from Disley in Cheshire who was working as a forklift truck driver.
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Patients dying due to ambulance and 999 call handler failings
- 31.08.2017
- EmmaArnold
- Clinical-negligence, Clinical-negligence
Failings by ambulance services and emergency call handlers result in almost two patients dying every month, according to a review of coroners' reports. Ambulance services were contacted by coroners in England and Wales 86 times in the last four years warning them changes need to be made to prevent any more deaths.
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Women left in pain after bad reactions to material of coil implant
- 29.08.2017
- EmmaArnold
- Clinical-negligence, Clinical-negligence, Clinical-negligence, Clinical-negligence
A number of women have been left in pain after being fitted with a sterilisation implant used on the NHS. Some women said they were not informed about the risks of the implantation which should be common practice before any surgical procedure.
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Elderly woman flung from wheelchair due to pothole in the road
- 24.08.2017
- EmmaArnold
- Personal-injury, Personal-injury, Personal-injury, Personal-injury, Personal-injury, Personal-injury
A pothole covered by leaves left a disabled old lady with injuries after she was catapulted from her wheelchair.
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