As recently reported in the Law Society Gazette, the Ministry of Justice has announced that guidance for its legal aid safety net, will be amended to make it easier for families of people who have died in custody to receive public funding for representation at inquests. The scope of legal […]

The BBC has recently reported that the Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, will announce new measures designed to both improve patient safety and protect doctors. These new measures have emerged after Dr Hadiza Bawa-Garba was struck off after being found guilty of mistakes contributing to the death of a six-year old […]

A recent article from the BBC states that immunotherapy is transforming the treatment for cancer. Typically when a patient has cancer, it attacks their immune system. Certain tumours can still remain due to a protein called PD-L1, which will switch off the part of the immune system that attacks the […]

Hundreds of claimants were left disappointed today after the high court ruled that the metal on metal hip replacements they had received were not ‘defective’. Mrs Justice Geraldine Andrews ruled that the hip replacements were not responsible for the appearance of “abnormal” responses in some patients. This comes after hundreds […]

3 new international studies reported in the Lancet, have raised serious concerns regarding the increasing use of high-tech interventions to treat lower back pain. The papers claim that often surgery, injections and dangerous opioid drugs are used to treat lower back pain for the benefit of ‘vested interests’, rather than […]

A new survey by the Royal College of Anaesthetists (RCOA) has found antibiotics are the main cause of life-threatening allergic reactions during surgery. More patients are claiming to be allergic to penicillin – this is leading to riskier antibiotics being used. Anaphylaxis, (often caused by alternate drugs to penicillin such […]

Private online GP services have recently been investigated by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). The CQC is an independent regulator of all health and social care services in England. The online GP services enable patients to book appointments, order repeat prescriptions, access their records and view clinical correspondence. There are […]

Last week, Health and Social Care Secretary Jeremy Hunt, said that up to 270 women in England could have died because they did not receive invitations to a final routine breast cancer screening. 450,000 women aged 68-71 failed to get invitations since the problem first arose in 2009. Public Health […]

Mehmooda Duke of Moosa-Duke Solicitors, was awarded Solicitor of the Year by the Leicestershire Law Society.  At the awards ceremony, held at Athena on 27th April 2018, she was acknowledged for her work in Medical Negligence and her contribution to the legal community both locally and nationally. Mehmooda set up […]

An investigation of 206 private hospital carried out by the Care Quality Commission has concluded that there are concerns of an ‘old fashioned’ approach to consultations and a reliance on old systems which led to a lack of monitoring and checks. Following the failings that allowed rogue surgeon Ian Paterson […]