Is your dentist insured against accidents?
Picture the scene; you’re joining a new dental practice, just before you go for your first appointment you search for your dentist on the General Dental Council. You find your dentist is registered and...
View ArticleWhat To Do If Your Botox Treatment Goes Wrong
It would seem that more and more of us are opting for a bit of help to slow the appearance of ageing. The idea of growing old gracefully – wrinkles and all – seems alien to a growing number of Britons....
View ArticleInvestigation reveals 762 ‘Preventable’ Safety Incidents in NHS Hospitals
A recent BBC investigation reported on BBC Radio 4’s The World at One, has found that between 2009 to 2012, there have been 762 Never Events within England’s Hospitals. Never Events are defined as...
View ArticleBBC Investigation Reveals Alarming Trend In Bed Sores
It’s traumatic enough to see a loved one in hospital particularly if they’re frail and elderly. But it’s even more upsetting to then discover that because they’ve not received appropriate treatment,...
View ArticleHead and brain injury statistics
Everyone knows that a nasty knock to the head in an accident can lead to a severe injury, with a lifetime of potential consequences. There are facts and figures released every year by charities and...
View ArticleAre Dementia Sufferers receiving appropriate treatment?
It’s disgraceful that more than half of all people with dementia are not receiving a diagnosis, and disappointing to see such a disparity in diagnosis rates in different regions of the UK. This goes...
View ArticleWhy are A&E Waiting Times at a Nine-Year High?
Patients are waiting longer in A&E Departments than at any time for 9 years; new analysis shows. The report from The King’s Fund has indicated that a proportion of patients spend more than four...
View ArticleHow to Complain About Inadequate NHS Care
When you seek the help, support and guidance of an NHS professional, you rightly expect to be in a safe pair of hands – relying on professionalism, knowledge and expertise. But sadly, human experience...
View ArticleWhy 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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