Medical Negligence

Personal injury analysis: James Bell, a partner in Hodge Jones & Allen's medical negligence team, examines a Queen's Bench Division decision that the claimant patient had not established that the defendant hospital's breaches of duty in treating her when she fell ill after brain surgery had caused her brain damage.

The recent publication of the National Audit Office’s (NAO) Managing the costs of clinical negligence in trusts report, was beyond...

A NAO audit promises to shine a light on the NHSLA but will it come too late to influence the introduction of fixed fees, wonders Nina AliFor many years, clinical negligence lawyers have been voicing concerns about how the behaviour of the NHS Litigation Authority has driven up the cost of clinical negligence claims in the health service.

No sooner have we learnt that the Brexit campaign’s promised £350m a week was a lie, a series of five-day junior doctor strikes have been announced, alongside widespread predictions of a winter meltdown in the service. The NHS is imploding before our very eyes.

Fixed costs will impact access to justice & lead to long term deterioration of healthcare in the UK, says Nina...