With fears growing over the country’s developing ‘compensation culture’, the Justice Secretary has announced that cuts are to be made to the fees charged for medical reports in cases involving whiplash injuries. The new regulations will be laun...
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Managers of West Cumberland Hospital in Whitehaven have warned that staff shortages are jeopardising the quality of care being provided to patients. Earlier this year, numerous junior doctors were withdrawn from the wards due to a lack of senio...
It has been found that over the last three years, an icy car park and an unsafe chair have cost Barrow Borough Council £16,000 in compensation. The largest of these payouts went to an employee that suffered serious back injuries after sitting f...
Following an incident whereby an NHS nurse developed OCD after being pricked by a needle at work, the NHS are being forced to pay around £75,000 in compensation. Alcinda Tobbal had been a trainee nurse at Whipps Cross Hospital when the accident...
Following only thirteen days at her new job at Rastrick High School, support worker Helen Sloan made a claim of £50,000 for a back injury. Her injury was caused as a result of pushing pupils around the school in wheelchairs, blaming inadequate ...
Disability campaigner Miro Griffiths has been awarded with an MBE having fought for disability rights since the age of thirteen. He was one of many recognised in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list, alongside the likes of Stephen Sutton for servi...
The NHS in England, Wales and Northern Ireland has been warned that gaps in their training for patients with tracheostomies could be putting lives at risk. A tracheostomy is a procedure whereby a tube is inserted into the windpipe (trachea) of a pati...
A report has found that delays in patients reaching A&E are seriously impacting the North East Ambulance Service. Within six months of last year there were a recorded 10,599 delays, with 196 being over two hours. This saw paramedics u...
Last year alone, Haringey Council paid out over £417,000 in compensation to pedestrians and motorists injured on the borough’s roads. The figures, which were released by the Liberal Democrats, found that a total of 19 people were awarded compen...
A teacher has received £23,000 in compensation after slipping on a puddle of water in a school corridor. The teacher suffered serious ligament damage in the accident, with injuries to their feet and ankle. The court ruled that the school was to...
A recent report into the deaths of five cancer patients at a hospital in Kent has found that the surgery team was “dysfunctional”. The review of the cancer unit at Maidstone Hospital - carried out by the Royal College of Surgeons (RCS) – actually too...
New figures have revealed that the number of claims for injuries related to potholes has risen by 750% in the worst hit areas. This is most likely due to having just endured the wettest winter in England and Wales since 1766, with winter floodi...
The managing director of a roofing company has been fined for its dangerous work procedures after a member of public photographed one of the workers jet washing a roof without any safety measures in place. The photo was taken in June 2013, show...
An NHS watchdog has found that not enough is being done by hospital staff to prevent the spread of infection. Around 300,000 patients in England develop an infection during their stay in an NHS hospital every year. Prof Gillian Leng from the Na...
An NHS trust faces investigation following the death of a patient who was being treated under critical care at Hereford County Hospital. The death of the patient came after a complaint had been made concerning the hospital’s medical and surgica...
England’s health watchdog chairman said that there is a ‘huge variation’ in the care provided by England’s hospitals, with some that “you would not want to go to as a patient”. David Prior said that the Care Quality Commision (CQC) was shocked ...
Newly released figures have revealed that almost a quarter of a million pounds of taxpayers’ money has been paid out as compensation to children in Leeds over the last five years. This figure covers money paid out to children that have suffered...
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has suggested that individual NHS trusts draw up plans to reduce the number of serious mistakes they make every year. He hopes to potentially halve the number of serious, and avoidable, mistakes made within the NHS,...
A cyclist has been awarded £70,000 in compensation after a pothole threw him off his bike in 2009. Alan Curtis from Bushey in Hertfordshire suffered a “severe head injury” in the crash on The Drive in Rickmansworth. The 57-year-old sued H...
A pensioner from Nottingham had to wait five hours for an ambulance after the phone call was logged incorrectly. Stewart Maltby’s GP had been visiting Mr Matlby at his home in Farnsfield having recently suffered a stroke and abdominal surgery.&...
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