A senior ambulance officer recently admitted to failings which played a part in the Hillsborough disaster. Paul Eason told the inquest that he and a colleague were supposed to be the “eyes and ears” of the ambulance service control room, but fa...
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A recent report found that GPs across the UK are failing to detect the early stages of liver disease. The report, which was published in The Lancet, highlighted that the UK has one of the worst death rates for liver disease in Europe. The report stat...
A recent inspection found that the A&E department of a Kent hospital is ‘still unsafe’. The Care Quality Commission carried out an inspection on 26 August and found that the hospital was unable to maintain safe standards of care. An earlier...
A business executive is suing a motorist from Norfolk for £2m over crash injuries that he claims ruined his career. 44-year-old Peter Siegel says that the car accident he was involved in in 2009 left him with a brain injury that severely affected his...
A compensation claim was recently opened on behalf of a baby that was subjected to heavy drinking while in the womb. The court appeal described the damage inflicted upon the unborn baby as equivalent to ‘an attempt at manslaughter’. The lawyers...
New figures have revealed that police dogs bite more than five members of the public every week in London alone. Figures obtained under the Freedom of Information Act found that compensation paid out to those bitten by police dogs has doubled i...
A father-of-one assaulted his three next-door neighbours with CS spray because their music was “too loud”. Arunas Kastentinavicius said at Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court that he didn’t think there was anything wrong with using CS spray because it i...
Recent research has revealed that doctors across the country are missing the early signs of lung cancer. With lung cancer killing more than 35,000 people a year – being the biggest cause of cancer death in the UK – researchers have revealed tha...
Numerous charities and leading medical groups have warned that the NHS is at “breaking point”. A letter composed by the leaders of these organisations was released over the weekend, highlighting the vast number of problems that need to be fixed...
A care home in Suffolk has failed to provide adequate care to its patients, highlighted by a recent Care Quality Commission report. Mildenhall Lodge, run by Care UK, failed to provide satisfactory care in four out of five of the key standard categori...
An inquest into the death of 20-year-old John Moore-Robinson found that he could easily have been saved. Mr Moore-Robinson died in his home in 2006 after he was discharged from hospital with an undiagnosed ruptured spleen. Despite his obvious s...
50-year-old cyclist Melanie Burrows said that she feels greatly let down by police after they were unable to take her case further following a serious cycling accident. Another cyclist, who tried to overtake her at a junction in July this year, hit M...
A dog attack earlier this month saw two people hospitalised. The attack happened in Newbury on the 4th of September when two terriers attacked a couple of dog walkers. Both victims suffered serious injuries and required hospital treatment...
With a group of American mothers suing Fifa for putting their children at risk of concussion, lawyers believe that it wont be long before parents in the UK do the same. The group has accused the Football Association of acting “carelessly and negligen...
Official data has revealed that NHS England receives an average of 480 complaints every day. This has been recorded by the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) as an 8% rise in 2013-14 on the previous year. Complaints cover a...
A woman has won compensation after falling seriously ill while on holiday in Mexico. 27-year-old Natalie Daymond had been on holiday at the Barcelo Costa Hotel, near Cancun, when an E.coli outbreak swept through the luxury resort. Ms Daymond st...
With a recent Salmonella outbreak having affected over 200 people across England, Public Health England has identified a source of eggs to be the cause. It is believed that it is the same strain of Salmonella that is making people ill all over ...
A hospital in Nottingham has apologised to the family of a man with cancer who died after being sent home with pneumonia. 60-year-old Richard Sharp from Bilborough died about an hour after being sent home from Nottingham City Hospital with clea...
Despite numerous complaints from members of the public, a doctor that was suspended in 2012 has been allowed to return to work. Dr Nagy Gabriel was suspended from the register after “patient safety concerns” were highlighted in an inquiry in Ma...
North Cumbria University Hospitals NHS Trust has been forced to write to 357 patients after it was found that equipment at the hospital had not been cleaned properly. The letters informed the past patients that the machines used to clean their ...
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