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The NHS is due to provide its usual review of its performance. There can be few people who will anticipate it indicating anything other than significant difficulties. But if you are taking a legal cla...

NHS Resolution reviews Emergency department claims As part of their ongoing reviews, NHS Resolution- NHSR (in essence the department in the NHS dealing with litigation claims) has published a series...

The issue of fundamental dishonesty continues to be raised in personal injury and clinical negligence claims.  Increasingly we see defendant insurers and the NHS seeking to try to establish some dish...

There is a standard prevailing belief that some private hospitals provide a higher grade of healthcare than the NHS.  This is inaccurate.  The standard of care and expertise a patient should expect...

Access to confidential medical records is always a controversial issue. The new  Policing Crime and Sentencing Bill 2021 seeks to expand the level of disclosure to police but it is a part of the bil...

How the court system deals with those who require assistance to take (or defend) a claim can present difficulties for clients and lawyers alike. These include children “protected parties” (adults...

The NHS Resolution’s Annual Report 2021 is now available.  It includes a review of costs and working practice. NHS Resolution actually represents eight different clinical negligence schemes ran...

For several years now the NHS (less so the private providers of healthcare) have reviewed their approach to incidents where something goes wrong.  There is of course the duty of candour which require...