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First things first.  We all know that lawyers are as popular amongst the general public as estate agents and tax inspectors.   I am a clinical negligence lawyer and therefore the vast majority of m...

Lord Saatchi introduced the Medical Innovation Bill which recently failed to progress through the House of Commons. It has been stopped (fortunately) by a Liberal MP. On the face of it the Bill see...

A recent report from the Centre for Health and Public Interest (CHPI) has found that there are inherent dangers in seeking medical and surgical care from private hospitals not apparent in an NHS sett...

The NHS budget and hospital service is now in significant crisis. Each year the government sets the budget “the tariff” for hospitals and other providers. This tariff is then subject to discuss...

Few people (particularly lay people) understand fully the changes that are due to come into place relating to funding of clinical negligence claims. The existing system allows for claimants to reco...