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The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital Trust maternity review: a timeline of events leading to a police investigation into maternity care
Posted: 16/07/2020
Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust provides care to pregnant mothers in Shropshire at the Royal Shrewbury Hospital and the Princess Royal Hospital, and delivers around 4700 babies per year. The trust is currently the focus of an investigation into care given to pregnant mothers and babies...…>>
First Do No Harm: an independent review of the safety of medicines and medical devices
Posted: 10/07/2020
First, do no harm: one of the most iconic, fundamental and prevailing maxims of the medical profession. We know only too well, particularly in the midst of the current healthcare crisis, that the majority of individuals enter the healthcare profession with the sole intention of helping those in need...…>>
Group B Strep Awareness Month: increasing awareness amongst pregnant women
Posted: 03/07/2020
July is Group B Strep Awareness Month, which aims to raise awareness of the condition, particularly amongst pregnant women: while Group B Strep is generally harmless, it can be passed to the baby during delivery and, in some cases, can make the baby very poorly...…>>
Death following a pulmonary embolism in Schembri v Marshall: another causation case of note for claimants
Posted: 01/07/2020
One of the notable clinical negligence judgments so far this year has been the case of Schembri v Marshall [2020] EWCA Civ 358. This was another case looking at the thorny issue of causation in clinical negligence cases: in other words, what does the claimant need to prove to succeed...…>>
Delays in diagnoses of eye conditions due to Covid-19 causing concern amongst UK ophthalmologists
Posted: 01/07/2020
Eye doctors have warned that many patients in the UK will go blind because of delays caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Specialist eye units in the UK have reported a drop in referrals ranging from between 65% and 87% during the coronavirus lockdown, compared with the same period last year...…>>

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