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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
7 March 2017
The importance of exhibitions like Naidex
I am pleased that Kingsley Napley will be attending Naidex again this year. As someone who attended the exhibition last year and took the time to walk around the exhibition hall, I left with a sense of admiration for the pace of technological and medical advances for those who have a disability.
6 March 2017
NHS Standing on a Burning Platform
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has found that safety is still inadequate in 4 out of every 5 acute NHS Trusts. The report, which looks at the state of care in NHS Hospitals between 2014 – 2016 raises a number of concerns.
27 February 2017
Setting the Discount Rate and Achieving Fairness for Victims of Accidents
This morning, the Lord Chancellor Liz Truss announced that she is changing the discount rate from 2.5% to minus 0.75%.
23 February 2017
Delays in A&E: Not Just a Matter of Time
Over the past few weeks there have been numerous stories published on the pressures which A&E Services have come under this winter. The time taken to be seen initially, as well as the “trolley wait” for admission has been under scrutiny like never before, with reports of significant numbers of patients with waits of between 4-12 hours and even longer.
15 February 2017
Blame the system, not the staff
Last week the BBC 10 o’clock news ran a nightly feature on the NHS, looking in particular at the Royal Blackburn Hospital, one of the busiest hospitals in the North West. We saw tired and worried patients being looked after by exhausted and demoralised staff, a nurse saying “it’s dangerous, it’s frightening”, and a patient saying “they need beds and staff - the Doctors and Nurses are working really hard, and it’s heart breaking”.