“A grandfather who gave away his life savings after terminal cancer was diagnosed is to sue his local health authority after it transpired that the diagnosis was incorrect.”
The Times, 10th September 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Sarah Carberry, 27, was given an epidural injection but claims it failed to work and she suffered 40 minutes of agony.”
Daily Telegraph, 1st September 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Coming out of hospital with an injured finger could earn you £75,000. The NHS may have to cough up £9 billion in lawsuits. Is compensation culture killing our health service?”
The Times, 3rd August 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“NHS psychiatric hospitals are failing to stop thousands of patients a year from absconding during periods of compulsory detention under the Mental Health Act, the Healthcare Commission revealed last night.”
The Guardian, 23rd July 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A schoolboy who was sent away from hospital three times before he collapsed and died at home could have survived if he had been admitted for observation, a coroner has said.”
Daily Telegraph, 21st July 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“More than 150 incidents of data being lost at NHS trusts across Wales have put patient and staff details at risk.”
BBC News, 17th july 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Hospitals should share data with police when patients are admitted because of a violent attack, a crime expert says.”
BBC News, 18th July 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Lawyers and pressure groups alike know an apology can avert legal actions against the medical profession. So why is it still so hard to apologise?”
Law Society’s Gazette, 3rd July 2008
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“The smoking ban is being extended to the buildings and grounds of mental health hospitals in England.”
BBC News, 1st July 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A mother said she had been ‘disgusted’ to discover that the body of her stillborn son was kept in a jar for four years rather than cremated.”
The Times, 29th May 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Queen’s Bench Divisional Court
“Preventing detained mental patients from smoking was not a breach of article 8, right to respect for private and family life, or article 14, prohibiting discrimination, of the European Convention on Human Rights.”
The Times, 28th May 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Please note the Times Law Reports are only available free on Times Online for 21 days from the date of publication.
“A father-of-four is claiming £1 million damages after winning his legal case over a vasectomy that went wrong.”
The Times, 22nd May 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“A provision which had the effect of prohibiting smoking in a high security psychiatric hospital was not incompatible with the human rights of detained mental patients and was not unlawful.”
WLR Daily, 21st May 2008
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
“High Court judges have ruled psychiatric patients should not be allowed to smoke at a high security mental hospital.”
BBC News, 20th May 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A family has vowed to sue the ‘filthy’ hospital where their teenage daughter died after contracting the ‘superbug’ MRSA.”
Daily Telegraph, 17th May 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“There were ‘serious deficiencies’ in care given to a man who died hours after entering hospital but they did not amount to neglect, a coroner said.”
BBC News, 8th May 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The National Health Service has been criticised in court after a doctor told the male victim of a double rape that he was ‘too grubby’ to be treated.”
BBC News, 22nd April 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Staff working in Welsh hospitals will not have extra legal protection from violence and abuse offered to their English colleagues, it has emerged.”
BBC News, 28th March 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“An elderly woman was left to die in hospital after doctors made an order not to resuscitate her without her family’s knowledge, it has been claimed.”
Daily Telegraph, 25th March 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Families of patients with severe brain damage after heart surgery as children are preparing to sue the NHS after a profoundly disabled woman won her case for compensation in the wake of the Bristol heart babies scandal.”
The Times, 14th March 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
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