Insights

Last month the Care Quality Commission (CQC) brought into force its quality ratings for independent doctor and clinic services. The regulator of health and adult social care in England recently pub...

In Shelbourne v Cancer Research UK [2019] EWHC 842 (QB) the claimant suffered a spinal injury when she was lifted up, and dropped, at a works Christmas party by a drunk colleague (a Mr Beilik). She c...

In January 2015, I wrote about how the NHS was struggling to cope with demand over the winter and that Accident and Emergency waiting times were on the increase.  Four years on and the situation has...

In September of this year, I wrote about how the growing staffing crisis in histopathology is impacting on the diagnosis and treatment of cancer in the NHS, click here to read more. This week, the...

In the recent case of Wallett & Ors v.Vickers, Mr Justice Males considered that the Recorder had erred in dismissing the claim on the basis of ex turpi causa. This is a legal doctrine which states...

Mr Justice Soole in the recent case of Lewis v Tindale & MIB (2018) has ruled on the scope of the MIB’s liability as an arm/ “emanation” of the state. In this case the claimant (a pedestr...

A report this month from the Royal College of Pathologists has raised urgent questions over staffing levels in NHS histopathology departments across the country.  https://www.rcpath.org/discover-path...

There have been many tributes to the NHS this week as it turns 70.  The National Health Service was established in 1948 to ensure that everyone in the UK could have access to proper healthcare, regar...