Details: An opportunity has arisen for a Paralegal to join our team. The role is within a fast paced environment, acting for victims of Clinical Negligence. The role will mainly involve assisting Fee Earners on Multi-Track cases. Paralegals meeting qualifying criteria (performance and conduct) will be considered for a training […]

The government are considering introducing fixed fees for clinical negligence claims valued up to £250,000 with a view to making huge savings and cutting down on the costs paid to claimant law firms. According to the NHS Litigation Authority, in 2013/14, claimant legal costs amounted to 22% of the £1.2bn […]

Three strikes have been earmarked to take place in December 2015 over doctors’ contracts with the NHS despite ministers warning that this could cause harm to patients. The strikes come after thousands of doctors recently participated in a series of protests over changes being made to their contracts. If the […]

University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust has admitted to a number of failings which subsequently led to the death of a baby, Delilah Hubbard, who was aged just 2 days old. Delilah was born at the Leicester Royal Infirmary on 9 March 2015. Her mother, Ms Clara Bassford, had been […]

In February 2011, Jack Adcock, aged 6 years old, died as result of a cardiac arrest which was triggered by sepsis, secondary to a bacterial infection, at Leicester Royal infirmary. Jack, who had Down’s Syndrome and a heart condition, had earlier been admitted with vomiting and diarrhoea. Sepsis, colloquially known […]

The government is making plans to stop GPs having to rearrange missed outpatient hospital appointments for their patients. When patients miss their outpatient appointments, currently they have to go back to their GP to be referred again for hospital treatment. The Department of Health has stated that this is wasting […]

While the NHS is faced with the challenges increasing pressure to deliver more with less resources and limited budgets, the level of variation in the quality of care is of “great concern according to the Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspectors. The national ‘State of Care’ report released by the CQC […]

The Royal College of Midwives have warned that due to a decrease in the number of midwives, mistakes will ‘almost certainly be made’.  The Royal College of Midwives says there is a national shortage of 2,600 full-time midwives. This can and will have disastrous consequences for mothers and their new […]

Britain’s most senior casualty doctor and President of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, Dr Cliff Mann, has stated that one third of Accident & Emergency doctors are fleeing the UK to work abroad. This is due to “toxic” levels of work pressure. He stated that training a casualty doctor […]

It has been announced that by 2020 patients should be given a cancer diagnosis or the all clear within 28 days. It is projected that a faster diagnosis could save up to 11,000 lives a year. The announcement comes after a cross-party group of MPs warned that cancer services had […]