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May 2014
According to a committee of MPs (The Commons Public Administration Select Committee), public services need to learn lessons from the Stafford Hospital scandal on the handling of complaints. Concerns raised by local doctors and patients were ignored about the failings at the hospital. The committee says that there is a “culture of denial and failure”…
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Mar 2014
An article in the British Journal of General Practice by Jeremy Fairbanks and Christopher Mallen entitled “Cauda Equina Syndrome: implications for primary care,”(BJGP February 1, 2014 vol.64 no.619 67-68), comments that back pain is common, with 6% of a GP practice’s patients seeing their GPs about back pain each year and that, while in the…
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Mar 2014
Health regulator Monitor has forced Medway NHS Foundation Trust to appoint an interim chairman and chief executive. Following the Keogh Review in June, the trust was found to have ‘major failings’ and put into special measures. It was criticised for poor management and communication with patients, long waits in A&E, in appropriate referrals and delayed…
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Feb 2014
Cauda Equina Syndrome Update As a specialist clinical negligence solicitor and cauda equina syndrome solicitor at Chadwick Lawrence LLP, I was interested to read a 29th January 2014 update on cauda equina syndrome by Jennifer Robertson MD, MSEd, for emergency doctors (http://www.emdocs.net/cauda-equina-syndrome). This confirms the importance of doctors understanding cauda equina syndrome, as it can…
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Feb 2014
An American football player recently underwent surgery for compartment syndrome that could have lead to him losing a limb or his life. Due to a prompt diagnosis and emergency surgery it is likely this saved his leg. Compartment syndrome can be acute or chronic. Acute compartment syndrome can occur as a complication following a fracture…
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Feb 2014
A report has found that two cancer patients died after, in breach of NHS rules, they were not given follow-up appointments at Watford General Hospital. An internal review was instigated by West Hertfordshire NHS Trust into the process used for monitoring patients with suspected cancer who were referred to the hospital, the conclusion of which…
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