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Enhancing Public Accountability: Key Elements of the Public Office (Accountability) Bill 2025
Kirsty Cook
2 July 2025
When metal hip replacements go wrong
Hip replacement surgery is very common, restoring mobility and quality of life to thousands every year in the UK. It is recognised to be the most cost effective for the NHS in returning patients to productive lives. The components wearing surfaces may be metal, ceramic or plastic, and will often last over 20 to 25 years, or even longer for some people.
29 January 2025
Bile Duct Injuries: Is There a Case for Compensation?
A recent article in the British Journal of Surgery states that there have been increasing numbers of legal claims being made against the NHS in relation to bile duct injuries ‘in spite of 30 years of experience and training’. Bile duct injury is a dangerous complication of cholecystectomy – a common abdominal operation to remove the gallbladder, usually in order to treat gallstone disease.
19 October 2023
My hip replacement failed because of infection – do I have a legal claim?
Hip replacement surgery, whereby a damaged hip joint is replaced with an artificial one, is common in the UK, with the majority of procedures being carried out on people between the ages of 60 and 80 years.
30 May 2023
Spotlight on nerve injuries – legal claims and medical advances
‘Nerves are like the underground tube network in our body’ (Marco Sinisi, consultant neurosurgeon).
24 July 2019
Ureter damage following a hysterectomy
In the recently reported case of JD V Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust, Ms JD, a 42-year-old woman was awarded £45,000 after she suffered damage to her ureter during a hysterectomy in November 2017.