“Clinical negligence claims against the National Health Service have increased by almost a third over the past year, with an extra £100million paid out to victims of medical blunders.”
Daily Telegraph, 5th August 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A Christian midwife is suing a hospital for making her wear trousers in the operating theatre – because she claims the Bible forbids women from putting on men’s clothing.”
Daily Telegraph, 3rd August 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Regina (Condliff) v North Staffordshire Primary Care Trust [2011] EWCA Civ 910; [2011] WLR (D) 256
“It was not unlawful for a primary care trust to adopt a policy by which all individual funding requests were to be considered and determined exclusively by reference to clinical factors.”
WLR Daily, 27th July 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“A Government health watchdog has launched an investigation into allegations that children undergoing heart surgery at a leading hospital received inadequate treatment.”
Daily Telegraph, 26th July 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Between January 2009 and June 2010 there were 42 maternal deaths in units across London – more than twice the expected number. That prompted NHS London, the strategic health authority, to commission an independent review.”
Daily Telegraph, 25th July 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A girl who was born with severe brain damage has been awarded £5m damages from a health board for her care.”
BBC News, 19th July 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Information commissioner Christopher Graham says fines of up to £500,000 could be imposed for Data Protection Act breaches.”
The Guardian, 1st July 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The care and treatment given to a man with a history of schizophrenia who killed a pensioner because voices in his head ordered him to attack a stranger have been severely criticised in a review.”
The Guardian, 30th June 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Doctors have demanded a government investigation into why London’s Great Ormond Street Hospital kept information from the original Baby Peter inquiry.”
BBC News, 1st July 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A hospital security guard who planted a fake bomb where he worked prompting a six-hour security alert has been jailed for 15 months.”
BBC News, 22nd June 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Indefensible legal claims for mistakes by doctors and nurses are being contested unnecessarily by ‘macho’ NHS lawyers, the head of the Law Society warned as the bill for damages exceeded £1bn for the first time.”
The Independent, 19th June 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A breastfeeding mother whose newborn baby was forcibly taken from her and put into care for six days is seeking a judicial review over alleged unlawful treatment during a crucial bonding period with her daughter.”
The Guardian, 17th June 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A boy left severely brain damaged by complications at his birth in hospital has won the right to claim a seven-figure NHS compensation package.”
BBC News, 8th June 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A Cumbria boy who was left severely disabled by hospital blunders during his birth has been awarded £7.9m in damages at the High Court.”
BBC News, 7th June 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A hospital being sued by hundreds of women, who claim their incontinence was made worse by a surgeon, has admitted liability or agreed to pay compensation in 50% of claims processed so far.”
BBC News, 29th May 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Hospitals will be fined £665,000 for leaving men and women in the same wards as a tough new regime comes into force.”
Daily Telegraph, 19th May 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A coroner has condemned a hospital for a series of ‘gross failures’ that left an elderly patient so dehydrated that his family were forced to give him water through a damp flannel before he died.”
Daily Telegraph, 12th May 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A six-year-old boy left disabled after ‘wholly avoidable delays’ at birth has won £4.6m in compensation.”
BBC News, 9th May 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The NHS has paid £112 million in compensation over the past five years after doctors failed to spot deadly blood clots, according to research.”
Daily Telegraph, 10th May 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Patients sectioned under the Mental Health Act have won permission to bring a high court test case over a hospital smoking ban.”
The Guardian, 6th May 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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