Members of the Fosse Business Breakfast Club, the Moosa-Duke Solicitors’ team and friends embarked on a 10 mile charity walk in the Peak District on Saturday 13th May 2017 to raise money for the Maria Hanson Foundation (Me & Dee registered charity), which was formed in 2006. The Maria Hanson […]

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) have reported in their article ‘Learning, candour and accountability’ that “last year 495,309 deaths were registered in England”. Of these, 232,442 (47%) people died in hospital, with even more dying while receiving services provided by NHS trusts as an outpatient or from community services provided […]

Moosa-Duke Solicitors represented Mr Taylor after the NHS mis-diagnosed a blood clot which caused the death of his wife, Alison, in 2010. The NHS initially denied any wrongdoing, but Moosa-Duke Solicitors fought the case relentlessly for justice. The NHS finally admitted that failure to do a blood test and perform […]

Official figures released show that the NHS has set aside £56 billion to pay for medical mistakes made by their staff. This represents almost half of the total NHS budget. The figures have prompted the National Audit Office (NAO) to launch a 6-month investigation as to why this amount of […]

It was reported that in England, 85% of beds available in paediatric intensive care units were full on Friday night. But some units in cities including London and Leicester were forced to declare themselves as “at capacity”. Simon Enright , the Director of Communications at NHS England , tweeted: “It […]

A medical report has been released which outlines a review of an NHS trust in the Manchester area where it was stated that clinical errors, bad staff attitudes and chronic shortages were commonplace. The review was carried out by new maternity director at Pennine Acute Hospital NHS trust which operates […]

Cancer Research UK have conducted an analysis of NHS-wide performance data for patients in England seen in 2015. This analysis shows that 132,138 patients did not see a cancer specialist within the required 14 days or start treatment such as surgery or radiotherapy within the supposed maximum 31 after diagnosis, […]

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The Government has just announced a new compensation scheme which may help parents in England whose children are injured at birth. The new Rapid Resolution and Redress scheme, which is out for consultation, is intended to allow medical staff to speak openly about failings in maternity care, to learn from […]

Analysis by the BBC based on figures released by the NHS Litigation Authority shows that NHS trusts in England paid out more than £1.4bn in medical negligence claims last year compared to £583m in 2008 The NHSLA is a not-for-profit part of the NHS. It manages negligence and other claims […]