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Understanding the Government’s consultation on earned settlement
Ilda de Sousa
25 June 2025
Is this the turning point for maternity care?
Concerns over NHS maternity care are very sadly seldom out of the news. As a lawyer who has specialised in birth injury claims over many years, it has been all too clear to me for a long time, that far too many women and babies, fail to receive anywhere close to adequate maternity care leading in some instances to devastating outcomes.
28 May 2025
Why Fatigue of NHS Staff Matters and the Risk it Poses to Patient Safety
Fatigue within the NHS presents a significant risk to patient safety, yet in healthcare its consequences remain largely unrecognised despite the increasing demands on NHS workforces.
21 May 2025
Litigation Friends
While we mostly associate dementia with the affect it can have on our memory, it can also affect our ability to think and communicate and our capacity to manage our own affairs. When undertaking legal proceedings, as solicitors, we have a duty to ensure that our clients have the mental capacity to give proper instructions to bring, or defend, a claim. Where our client does not have the necessary capacity, a Litigation Friend may be appointed
19 May 2025
Brain injuries: the good, the bad and the inspiring
We are now in Action for Brain Injury week, run annually by the charity Headway to raise awareness and understanding of the different aspects of brain injury. The theme this year is ‘On a good day’ which aims to highlight the fluctuating and unpredictable nature of brain injury and the gap that can arise between someone’s capabilities on a good day versus a bad day. Headway wants people to see both sides of the story. It seeks to change behaviours and opinions towards those who might be having an ‘all-too-common bad day’.
13 May 2025
Women’s Health Series 4: Cancer Claims
New research suggests that UK cancer cases have risen in women but fallen in men. Women’s cancers include gynaecological cancer (i.e. cervical, ovarian and vaginal cancers) and breast cancer. Here I look at the impacts of delays in diagnosis and treatment failures, provide some guidance on bringing a medical negligence claim and consider why there is hope for the future with new technologies.
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