Why plans to reorganise Heart Surgery at the LGI are put on hold
On 12th June the health secretary announced that the closure of the Leeds heart unit and two others in Leicester and London will be suspended after it become apparent that the initial consultation...
View ArticleHealthcare, is this for real?
There are a lot of headlines around at the moment involving the performance of care homes, hospitals, individual surgeons, the NHS itself and whether or not they are regulated properly. Unfortunately,...
View ArticleWhy we Welcome the Disclosure of NHS Surgeons’ Mortality Rates
With recent scandals involving a lack of transparency we at Neil Hudgell Solicitors welcome the disclosure of NHS surgeons’ mortality rates. It can only be right that patients undergoing surgery are...
View ArticleMr Rod Irvine, consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at South London...
By Simon Wilson, senior solicitor and medical negligence at Neil Hudgell solicitors. I have just been informed of this news release from the South London Healthcare NHS Trust regarding patients of Mr...
View ArticleWhen Home Care Fails: what to do
By Simon Wilson, Senior Solicitor at Neil Hudgell Solicitors With the UK’s elderly population soaring – a staggering 10 million people in the UK are over 65-years-old and latest projections are for 5½...
View ArticleWhy it’s time the NHS started talking to medical negligence lawyers for its...
By Kath Lavery, former Chair of NHS Hull and now chair of Neil Hudgell Solicitors, personal injury and medical negligence specialists. Dealing with the aftermath of what are termed “serious untoward...
View ArticleMore allegations of mistakes at Wexham Park Hospital: a lawyer’s view
By Chris Gooderidge, Senior Medical Negligence Lawyer at Neil Hudgell Solicitors. It’s never good reading of yet more allegations of blunders at Wexham Park Hospital, Slough in Berkshire. As a lawyer,...
View ArticleSay sorry: how an apology could help save the NHS money
By Simon Wilson, senior solicitor and medical negligence expert at Neil Hudgell Solicitors Recent comments by Jeremy Hunt, the Health Secretary, that doctors and nurses should be more open and honest...
View ArticleBullying in the NHS and claims for compensation: the costly link
By Simon Wilson, senior solicitor and medical negligence expert at Neil Hudgell Solicitors A report published this week illustrates how bullying in the NHS can have a direct impact on the standard of...
View Article“NHS waiting time data for elective surgery ‘unreliable’”: a lawyer’s view
By Simon Wilson, medical negligence expert and senior solicitor at Neil Hudgell Solicitors As a Clinical negligence lawyer who every day encounters clients who’ve been let down by the NHS, the news...
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