Insights

I have previously written about the case of Darnley following both the High Court judgment (in a LexisNexis article in August 2015 [1]) and the Court of Appeal judgment (in a blog in April 2017 [2]),...

In September 2014 I wrote a blog about waiting times in General Practice, following a report in the Guardian newspaper about how increasing waiting times would impact upon the quality of care that pat...

A paper published in the British Journal of General Practitioners (BJGP) on 22 May 2018 has identified that opportunistic pulse-checking by GPs in the over 65 year old age group increases detection of...

Once a clinical negligence case has been through the Pre-Action Protocol for the Resolution of Clinical Disputes and it is clear that the parties have not been able to resolve the dispute, it will the...

Under the headline “NHS: learning from mistakes” in the Law Society Gazette this week (16 February 2018), the President of the Forum of Insurance Lawyers (FOIL), Mr Stephen Hines, makes a few obse...

Now that the Christmas and New Year festivities are over, everyone is returning to work and gearing up for another winter. At this time of year, two of the main - and related - issues at the forefront...

Investigating a clinical negligence claim is not always an easy job. One of the first steps that we have to take is obtaining a claimant’s medical records. This in itself can be quite an onerous tas...

In the face of increasing government and insurance company pressure for a reduction in clinical negligence claims and their associated cost, and as a claimant clinical negligence lawyer with an NHS pa...