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Administrative Court Overturns NMC Strike-Off: Key Lessons for Regulators and Prosecutors
Jessica Etherington
24 March 2016
Channel Islands and foreign residents receiving treatment in the UK. How do you claim if there is medical negligence?
If you are resident overseas but you have had medical treatment whilst in the UK, you are still entitled to investigate a claim and obtain compensation for any clinical negligence that has occurred during the course of your treatment.
24 February 2016
Better births? - A comment on the National Maternity Review
An independent review, chaired by Conservative peer, Baroness Julia Cumberlege and commissioned by NHS England has published proposals which it states are “designed to make care safer and give women greater control and more choices”.
15 December 2015
Compensation for sexual assaults: blurring the lines between criminal and civil litigation
The recent case of C v WH [2015] EWHC 2687 (QB) highlights the increasingly interconnected worlds of criminal law and personal injury claims relating to sexual abuse.
30 November 2015
The ‘Weekend Effect’ – Babies born at weekend more likely to die
Babies born at the weekend are more likely to die within seven days than those born on weekdays, according to a study published last week in the British Medical Journal (BMJ).
This research adds further fuel to the continuing row over the alleged “weekend effect” (see our previous blog, "The ‘Weekend Effect’ – How to avoid dying in hospital"), which ignited following the publication of a study in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine suggesting that an extra 11,000 people died each year following admission to hospital on a weekend as opposed to a weekday.
20 November 2015
HIV – still a death sentence?
Earlier this week, Hollywood star Charlie Sheen took to national television to confirm that he is living with HIV.
After days of intense media speculation, the former star of sitcom Two And A Half Men appeared on NBC's Today show, stating "I am here to admit that I am HIV positive". Sheen revealed that he had paid "enough to take it into the millions" to keep people from going public about his illness. "I have to put a stop to this onslaught, this barrage of attacks and of sub-truths", he said. Sheen was apparently first diagnosed roughly four years ago, but doesn't know how he contracted the virus.