As reported in the Leicester Mercury recently, patients are waiting longer for operations mainly due to bed shortages resulting in 1,615 operations being cancelled in 2017/2018 by University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust.  This represented a 6% increase on the previous year. However this figure is not necessarily a true […]

Mehmooda Duke of Moosa-Duke Solicitors, has been recognised in the 2019 New Year’s Honour’s List with an MBE for services to the legal profession and female entrepreneurship. She was one of only five recipients of an MBE in the county. Mehmooda set up Moosa-Duke Solicitors on 12th May 2003. It […]

The BBC has reported that patients are at risk this Christmas with nearly 95% of hospital beds already being occupied. The figure was released in the NHS England’s first weekly report. Anything above 85% is considered unsafe. A spokesperson for NHS England said that their staff are ‘working hard’ to […]

As reported by the Guardian, the recent publication of NHS Digital figures has raised concerns about the shortages of General Practitioners. The shortage means that patients have to wait much longer than before for an appointment. In October 2018, GPs in England had 27 million appointments with almost 5 million […]

On 19th October 2018, Mehmooda Duke, the Managing Director of Moosa-Duke Solicitors, reached the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro to raise money for Healing Little Hearts.  Watch the video of this gruelling trek below: If you wish to donate, please click the link below: http://www.totalgiving.co.uk/mypage/kili4healing

As recently reported by the BBC, patients have been fitted with unsafe medical implants which have not been appropriately tested. These implants include; rods to correct spines, artificial knees and hips, and heart pacemakers. An investigation found that these implants were unsafe because they had failed tests in baboons or […]

As recently reported by the BBC,  a failure by the NHS has resulted in  around 40,000 women in England not receiving letters regarding cervical cancer smear tests, including invitation and reminder letters, and abnormal test results. These errors occurred between January and June 2018 by Capita, the company responsible for […]

The government funded a report by the Each Baby Counts project to analyse cases of stillbirth, neonatal death and babies born with brain damage in NHS maternity units.  Each Baby Counts is the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists’ national quality improvement programme, which was created to reduce the number […]

The BBC has reported an increase in patients who are facing long waiting lists for tests such as scans and biopsies. A BBC investigation revealed that long waits experienced by patients are as a result of staff shortages in hospitals across the UK, particularly radiographers. According to The Society of […]

We are delighted to announce that the firm and two of its senior solicitors have retained their “Band One” ranking, the highest ranking available, in the 2019 edition of the Chambers and Partners directory. Chambers and Partners is the UK’s leading directory for legal services and is a ‘guide to […]