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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......>>
Prostate Cancer Awareness Month – new treatment for 9,000 NHS patients
Posted: 30/11/2022
As we near the end of Movember, the aim of which is to raise awareness of prostate cancer, it has been announced that about 9,000 NHS patients in England with advanced prostate cancer will be eligible to receive an innovative new treatment that will increase their chances of survival......>>
Diabetic retinopathy – how eye disease can result from diabetes
Posted: 17/11/2022
Monday 14 November 2022 was World Diabetes Day. Diabetes can have various health consequences, one of which is known as diabetic retinopathy. Diabetic retinopathy can impair a person’s sight, lead to glaucoma, or even total blindness, and is one of the most common causes of blindness in people of a working age......>>
Prostate Cancer Awareness Month 2022 – why early detection can be the difference between life and death
Posted: 01/11/2022
Globally, 1.4 million men are diagnosed with prostate cancer each year. Across the UK, it is the most commonly diagnosed cancer and more than 395,000 men are currently living with the disease. Over 52,000 men are diagnosed here annually, and 12,000 men will die. One in eight men will get prostate cancer during their lifetime......>>
World Sight Day 2022 – focusing on the importance of regular sight test appointments
Posted: 13/10/2022
Over 2.2 billion people worldwide suffer from visual impairment and, sadly, almost half of those visual impairments could have been prevented or avoided. Thursday 13 October is World Sight Day. The charity responsible for the annual campaign, the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB), this year focuses on the importance of......>>
National cancer screening programme extended to include lung cancer
Posted: 07/10/2022
Following new guidance from the UK National Screening Committee (UKNSC), the national cancer screening programme — which already tests for breast, cervix and bowel cancer — is to be extended to include testing for lung cancer......>>
Reusable contact lenses ‘raise risk of eye infection’
Posted: 28/09/2022
Recent research conducted by teams at the University College London and Moorfields Eye Hospital have found that wearers of reusable contact lenses are almost four times as likely to develop a sight-threatening eye infection, when compared with those who use daily disposable contact lenses......>>
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