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Kingsley Napley’s Medical Negligence Team ‘walks together’ with the Dame Vera Lynn Children’s Charity
Sharon Burkill
26 June 2017
Spinal Injury: an overview
Spinal Cord Injuries Awareness Day is held annually in May. One of the aims of the day was to raise awareness of the statistics concerning spinal injury (such as there are 50,000 people in the UK and Ireland living with paralysis due to a spinal cord injury) and the fact that such an injury does not mean the individual concerned has to give up.
20 June 2017
Cerebral Palsy – what do we know about the causes?
A diagnosis of cerebral palsy (CP) is usually only made after a doctor has carried out a range of specialised tests with a team of health professionals. These professionals may include neurologists, paediatricians, genetic specialists and a host of others.
22 May 2017
What price for the wind in your hair?
I recently had a conversation with an acquaintance about her choice not to wear a cycle helmet. She explained she liked the feeling of freedom, and of the wind in her hair and on her face.
20 April 2017
Medical Negligence & Personal Injury quarterly newsletter - 1st quarter 2017
The first three months of 2017 have been busy in the field of clinical negligence. There is a Ministry of Justice consultation on fixed costs in progress coupled with Lord Justice Jackson’s wider review on costs in civil litigation; a consultation on birth injury claims and whether the current system of redress is appropriate, a change in the discount rate and an associated consultation on whether the system for setting the discount rate is fit for purpose and the rebranding of the NHS Litigation Authority to NHS Resolution. While all of this has been going on there have been 11 Court decisions, 5 of which were at first instance with the remaining 6 cases being heard on appeal.
12 April 2017
‘Gross failings’ by medical staff lead to another child fatality from sepsis – is enough being done to stop this happening again?
Last week it was ruled by a coroner that failures by an NHS hospital caused the death of a 5-year old boy from sepsis, raising fresh concerns that despite a nationwide awareness campaign, the condition is still not being spotted or treated early enough by doctors.
