Southmead Hospital in Bristol has widened its review into patients who have previously undergone controversial bowel prolapse surgeries known as mesh rectopexy amid concerns that poor outcomes are not confined solely to procedures performed by surgeon Antony Dixon.
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This week, a dishonest medical negligence claimant who dramatically inflated the extent of his injuries has been jailed for three months.
The government has today published it’s rapid review into the offence of gross negligence manslaughter and it’s applicability to healthcare professionals.
Essex GP practice taken over by Virgin Care is placed in Special Measures after going from outstanding to inadequate in under 2 years.
Medical negligence lawyers have long been familiar with the concept of ‘never events’, namely incidents that simply should not occur but for the care delivered falling below the standard of a responsible medical practitioner.
The Medical Protection Society (MPS) and National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) have recently combined to prepare and update to the clinical knowledge summary (CKS) for recognising cauda equina syndrome.
The latest figures from the Government’s Compensation Recovery Unit have revealed that the number of personal injury claims, including clinical negligence claims, has dropped to the lowest it’s been in a decade.
The UK’s leading medical negligence and serious injury law firm, Fletchers Solicitors, has been instructed to handle a number of claims against Britain’s most influential pelvic surgeon, Anthony Dixon, after it’s claimed that he left hundreds of women with life changing complications.
Women who believe they were left with life changing complications following surgery performed by the UK’s most influential pelvic surgeon, Anthony Dixon, have until 1 August to take advantage of an NHS protocol that has been adopted to coordinate the claims process.
NHS Digital published it’s review into the treatment of pelvic organ prolapse and stress urinary incontinence on 17 April 2018.
The independent regulator of healthcare in England, the Care Quality Commission, has warned of its major concerns regarding the way that private surgeons with practising privileges at private hospitals are managed.
On 6th February 2018, Jeremy Hunt announce a rapid review into the application of the offence of Gross Negligence Manslaughter (GNM) to healthcare professionals.
Leicester University Hospitals NHS Trust has released a sudden untoward incident report to the online publication, Pulse which was prepared into the circumstances surrounding the death of Jack Adcock in 2011.
