Articles in ‘Medical negligence’ Category

In October, MBRRACE-UK released a comprehensive report looking at the cause of deaths of women while pregnant and up to a year after being pregnant. MBRRACE-UK (Mothers and Babies: Reducing Risk through Audits and…

15 years ago, the Coroner’s and Justice Act 2009 placed a duty on coroners to make reports to relevant bodies where there is a risk that further deaths will occur if improvements and action…

Written by Marcus Coates-Walker – Barrister – 1 Crown Office Row With ever-increasing political pressure for answers, and drive to hold publicly-funded institutions to account, there has been a growing demand to hold inquiries…

Many pregnant women carry the bacteria Group B Streptococcus or GBS and it is usually harmless to both mother and baby. However, in some instances the bacteria can pass to the baby and the…

  Colin Griffiths died from complications of a vaccine which he should never have been given. The nurse misheard his response to a key question about his medical history and erroneously approved him receiving…

Introduction When Anna’s mother, Gill, was found to have low haemoglobin following a check-up with a district nurse, she was told she would be best to go to hospital and have a blood transfusion….

The new treatment pathway for CES, delivered as part of the NHS’s Getting It Right First Time initiative to improve care for various conditions, is a positive step forward in ensuring better outcomes for…

Breach of duty and causation are core elements when determining whether a medical negligence claim will succeed. If these two elements of a claim can be established, a claimant is likely to have suffered…