The Guardian has reported that the Health and Social Care System in England is facing increased pressure, which is causing “unsustainable, untenable conditions”. The Royal College of Nursing (RCN), is the world’s largest nursing union. It provides trade union support to nurses, midwives, student nurses, health care assistants and more.  […]

The BBC has reported that there are issues with regard to A&E wait times and ambulance handover delays, which is causing patients significant harm. We are concerned to see so many stories recently regarding the amount of time patients are having to wait in A&E before they are seen and […]

Moosa-Duke Solicitors are proud to support Breast Cancer Awareness Month in October 2021. Around 55,000 women and almost 400 men are diagnosed with breast cancer every year in the UK. Whilst improvements in detection, treatment and cancer care have doubled survival rates in the past forty years, there are easy […]

The Observer has recently reported that since 2015 Coroners have highlighted concerns about mental health services in dozens of inquests with staffing, long waiting lists and gaps in provision being a particular issue. The  paper identifies a total of 56  mental-health related deaths in England and Wales between  2015  and […]

A recent report by the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO), which looked at 25 complaints concerning failings in patient care relating to radiology, has revealed that NHS radiology systems require urgent improvement. Imaging is the start of many patients’ medical care and treatment and failings in this area can […]

Moosa-Duke Solicitors are honoured to have won 2 Awards at the Leicestershire Law Society Awards on Friday.  Small Firm of the Year and  Senior Solicitor of the Year which was won by Daniel O’Keeffe.  Congratulations to all of the winners and finalists and thank you to Leicestershire Law Society for […]

The NHS have published its annual reports for 2020/2021 which details the performance of the NHS and the steps that have been taken to adapt its services, both existing and after the Covid-19 pandemic. The report showed that through alternative dispute resolution such as mediation, the NHS resolved a greater […]

Although the UK is one of the safest places in the world to give birth, it could still be safer according to the NHS maternity scandal: Inside a crisis panel discussion. Independent investigators will look into five ‘serious incidents’ that occurred at Nottingham University Hospitals (NUH) NHS Trust. One of which […]

Research published in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, which examined 377 severe harm incidents and deaths on acute medical units in NHS hospitals between 2005 and 2015, has highlighted that the most common incidents reported are errors in diagnosis, prescription errors and failing to monitor unwell patients […]

BMI The Park Hospital is due to open a new operating theatre, which will house the Da Vinci Robot, “an advanced surgical system for precision cancer surgery”. The majority of the patients at the hospital are self-funded, but it also supports Sherwood Forest and Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trusts and […]