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Victims of Fraud Series Part 3: “What can I do if the fraudster has disappeared?” - Persons Unknown Injunctions
Elliot Grosvenor-Taylor
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.
13 December 2017
CPotential’s Inaugural Gala Dinner: another great event
CPotential’s inaugural fundraising gala dinner took place at the Bloomsbury Ballroom in London. My colleague and I went along as guests of their CEO, the indefatigable Jo Honigman.
11 December 2017
The PAC report has a point
The report by The Public Accounts Committee looking at financial pressures on the NHS rightfully criticises the government for being too slow to get to grips with the burgeoning cost of negligence. It found that the annual cost of clinical negligence for NHS trusts has quadrupled over the last decade (from £400 million in 2006/07 to £1.6 billion in 2016/17) diverting precious resources away from patients and frontline services. It also warned that the NHS’s defensive culture when things goes wrong needs to change.