Clinical and Medical Negligence News

Research shows removing legal aid from clinical negligence cost government money

Feb 10, 2012
The Government's rationale for removing Legal Aid from Clinical Negligence cases is to save £10.5m for the tax payer. A King's... read more

Is there a good reason not to screen pregnant women for Group B Streptococcus

Feb 7, 2012
If we are looking for ways to reduce the incidence of brain damage in new born babies and reduce the cost to the NHS and Government of necessary... read more

The victim's fault

Feb 7, 2012
The Whole of Government Accounts (WGA) report sets a provision against the cost of all existing possible medical negligence claims at £15.7... read more

NHS spends over £23m on translation

Feb 6, 2012
Sometimes centralisation seems a very good idea.  How individual NHS Trusts have been allowed to duplicate straight forward translation work... read more

Midwife's negligence in failing to monitor CTG

Feb 6, 2012
It's not enough to have fetal heart rate and maternal contractions recorded by CTG.  The recordings must be monitored.   In... read more