Is bullying widespread in mental health institutions?
A Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection into a Leeds mental health ward has revealed major concerns about the level of care being provided with allegations of inadequate protection against abuse. Coming quite soon after the scandal of a Bristol care home which was featured in a BBC Panorama programme, is this type of abuse widespread [...]
Filed under Care homes, Medical negligence, NHS Compensation | Comment (0)Are elderly patients being let down?
The Royal College of Nursing (RCN), which represents 400,000 nurses, is claiming that elderly patients are being badly treated by the NHS due to a shortage of nurses. Is this your experience too? A RCN survey of 1,700 nurses found that staff shortages were affecting wards for the elderly in particular and that it has [...]
Filed under Medical negligence, NHS, NHS Compensation | Comment (0)Scandal of man dying alone on a hospital trolley
Stories of poor patient care are not a rarity unfortunately but it is still shocking to hear the case of a man who died after being left on a trolley all day. The man, who has not been named, was left on the trolley for 20 hours while there was a wait for him to [...]
Filed under Medical negligence, NHS, NHS Compensation | Comment (0)Defining medical negligence
There has been debate in the House of Lords recently over the term medical negligence and in particular the number of instances of negligence as compared to those which lead to a court case. Lord Beecham, in the House, claimed that another peer, Lord Wigley, had used a figure of 10% of NHS patients every [...]
Filed under Beauty treament, Cosmetic surgery, Medical negligence, NHS Compensation | Comment (0)Could death have been avoided?
A case showing, if anything the vulnerability of human life, but also the responsibility on a hospital to do everything it can to safeguard the health and wellbeing of its patients, was reported last week when Joanna Henderson, a management consultant, who was fit and healthy, died after what should have been a routine operation. [...]
Filed under Beauty treament, Cosmetic surgery, Medical negligence, NHS Compensation | Comment (0)Care home fined after resident falls to his death
The owner of a Wrexham care home has been fined at Chester Crown Court after admitting health and safety failings following an incident in which an elderly resident fell out of a first floor window. Stanley Tilston, aged 79, who was suffering from dementia, fell out of the window of his bedroom at Plas Rhosnesi [...]
Filed under Beauty treament, Cosmetic surgery, Medical negligence, NHS Compensation | Comment (0)Are “no win, no fee” lawyers responsible for rising cost of NHS negligence?
With a new report by the committee of MPs, saying that the NHS will have to pay out 15.7bn in compensation claims for medical negligence, a 10% rise in a year, are some less reputable firms of solicitors partly to blame? The report, Whole of Government Accounts (WGA), which comes from the Public Accounts Committee, [...]
Filed under Beauty treament, Cosmetic surgery, Medical negligence, NHS Compensation | Comment (0)“Incompetent” surgeon struck off
A surgeon, who was said to lack the competence of a newly-qualified doctor, has been struck off the medical register. Puvaneswary Markandoo was said to be behind failings at Guy’s Hospital in London which led to the deaths of two notable women; Observer journalist Ruth Picardie and Beth Wagstaff, a woman who co-founded a trust [...]
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