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Victims of Fraud Series Part 2: Using information orders to identify a fraudster and trace assets
Hannah Fitzwilliam
19 April 2012
Delays in diagnosis: Ovarian cancer
Ovarian cancer is the fifth most common cancer in women and it is commonly diagnosed at an advanced stage due to the non-specific nature of its symptoms and the fact that many sufferers are asymptomatic until the disease is in the advanced stages.
9 March 2012
Clinical Negligence: Legal Aid Bill falters in the House of Lords
The highly controversial Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill has suffered some defeats in the House of Lords this week. The Bill is borne out of the government’s aim to save £350m from the Ministry of Justice budget by 2015 and originally aimed to cut all Legal Aid funding for victims of medical negligence.
9 March 2012
Surgery: Botched Surgery Blamed for Patients Deaths
The BBC recently reported on a Scottish Fatal Accident Inquiry which criticised standards of care provided to three patients who had their gallbladders removed via laparascopic (more commonly known as keyhole) surgery in 2006.
9 March 2012
Hospital Negligence: Doctor - Tell me the Truth
This recent Radio 4 programme highlighted a statistic that is perhaps surprising to some: that one in ten patients in NHS acute care suffers injury or death from treatment in hospital. Their problems are frequently compounded by an evasive and defensive response from the physicians.
20 February 2012
Personal Injury: cost cutting - a factor in fatal road accident?
The BBC recently reported on the sad case of a 19 year old UK serviceman, home on leave, who was killed after being struck by a car on an unlit road in the early hours of Christmas Day. North Somerset Council had implemented a cost saving scheme whereby street lighting is turned off in certain areas between the hours of midnight and 05.00. Members of the soldier’s family believe that that the part-night street lighting scheme was a factor in his death.