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Colorectal surgeon Marc Lamah still operating in the NHS despite private hospital ban
Posted: 22/07/2025
A recent BBC investigation has revealed that a surgeon banned from working in private practice, due to concerns about patient safety, has continued to operate on patients within the NHS, at the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton. This raises serious questions about communication between the private and public healthcare sectors, and the......>>
Paediatric hip surgeon in Cambridge suspended by Addenbrookes Hospital
Posted: 27/03/2025
A paediatric orthopaedic surgeon at Addenbrookes Hospital in Cambridge, the designated major trauma centre for the East of England, has been suspended. The NHS trust responsible for Addenbrookes (Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust) recently confirmed that, following concerns raised by employees, it had commissioned......>>
National Eye Health Week: the importance of regular eye examinations
Posted: 27/09/2024
National Eye Health Week is an annual event dedicated to raising awareness about the importance of eye health and the need for regular eye examinations. The campaign aims to highlight the significance of early detection and prompt treatment of potentially sight-altering conditions. Regular eye exams are crucial in detecting various eye problems......>>
Prominent orthopaedic surgeon Yaser Jabbar investigated for his care of children at Great Ormond Street Hospital
Posted: 13/09/2024
Investigations are continuing into the conduct of Mr Yaser Jabbar, a paediatric orthopaedic surgeon at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH), the leading NHS children’s hospital in London. It has been suggested that Mr Jabbar ‘botched’ operations, resulting in severe injuries to his patients and causing some to have amputations and significant......>>
Concerns continue to be raised about emergency care in private hospitals
Posted: 12/04/2024
In 2020, an inquiry (known as the Paterson Inquiry) into the conduct of Ian Paterson, a consultant breast surgeon who worked out of the Spire Group’s hospitals, found that he had subjected more than 1,000 patients to unnecessary and damaging operations over a 14-year period. Since the Paterson Inquiry, the Department of Health and Social Care......>>
Lines drawn in secondary victim claims linked to medical negligence following Supreme Court review
Posted: 12/01/2024
There are many claimants who have suffered psychiatric injury as a consequence of witnessing the horrifying death or injury of a loved one. Such claimants are not the primary victims of negligence but are known as ‘secondary victims’. The starting position in law is that a person (who is not the primary victim of negligence) cannot pursue compensation......>>
New research indicates that recent NHS strikes caused thousands of cancer appointments and operations to be cancelled
Posted: 15/09/2023
Research conducted across 35 NHS trusts has shown that, as a direct consequence of industrial action by NHS staff earlier this year, 9,310 cancer appointments and procedures were cancelled. Extrapolating that across all NHS trusts in England, the research suggests that an estimated 36,442 appointments and procedures for cancer patients......>>
Systemic failures resulting in potentially millions of ‘lost' GP referrals to hospitals for specialist care
Posted: 20/02/2023
A recent analysis by Healthwatch England, a patient watchdog, suggests that millions of patient referrals from GPs to hospitals for specialist medical care are either rejected, cancelled or lost by the hospital or, in other cases, not sent by the GP at all. The survey of almost 2,000 people who were referred by GPs to specialists discovered......>>

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