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Kingsley Napley’s Medical Negligence Team ‘walks together’ with the Dame Vera Lynn Children’s Charity
Sharon Burkill
5 February 2018
It takes courage to get back on the road
On 16 April 2017, Billy Monger, a promising 17 year old racing car driver, hit the back of a stationary car whilst competing in the Formula 4 Championship at Donington Park. He sustained severe leg injuries requiring both of his lower legs to be amputated. Despite these devastating injuries, Billy was clear from the early days of the aftermath of his injuries that he not only wanted to get back behind the wheel of a car but that he wanted to race again.
2 February 2018
"Not all lawyers are ambulance chasers"
It was good to hear Niall Dickson, the Chief Executive of NHS Confederation, on this morning's BBC Radio Four Today programme acknowledge that "not all lawyers are ambulance chasers". He was considering the rise in the cost to the NHS of medical negligence claims.
23 January 2018
Medical Negligence & Personal Injury quarterly newsletter - 4th quarter 2017
The final quarter of 2017 continued to be an active one within the field of medical negligence. Consultations and Parliamentary reports continued to flow. The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) produced a report on 1 December 2017 stating that the government was continuing to be complacent in relation to learning from mistakes from clinical negligence claims. There has been a quadruple increase in the cost of clinical negligence which PAC attribute to the failure to identify key re-occurring mistakes and learning from those mistakes. The committee advocated a shift from the current NHS "defensiveness" position to a learning from mistakes culture.
11 January 2018
Meningitis C Vaccine – Should the Government change the vaccination age?
Meningitis is a life-threating infection. It strikes very quickly and unless it is treated promptly there can be devastating consequences including death, severe brain damage, loss of hearing and vision, and when septicaemia (blood poisoning) also occurs, which is often the case, this can lead to amputation of limbs.
21 December 2017
Mistake in every 5 births
The publicity surrounding the alarming statistic that in one in every 5 births there are lapses that lead to mistakes is scary. Jeremy Hunt’s desire to make it his “top priority” to tackle these incidents is a step in the right direction because any mistake in maternity care can have devastating consequences.