Clinical Negligence Blog

The national press and the Gazette, a weekly magazine for the legal profession, have recently broached the subject of apologies following adverse outcomes after medical treatment. Whether medicine has become defensive, with Doctors feeling unwilling or unable to apologise and offer explanation, is a hotly debated issue.

It has long been recognised by Claimant clinical negligence practition...

The results of a recent study carried out by researchers in to the practice of self breast examination may come as a surprise to many women who dutifully carry out the kind of monthly set breast examination often set out in books and magazines.

Researchers at the Cochrane Collaboration studied the results of studies on 400,000 women and found that women who carry out a monthly breast examin...

Having watched ITV’s recent programme ‘Life and Death in the NHS’, I have to say that it was very uplifting to be reminded of all that is good about the NHS when all we tend to hear is so negative.

These were sad and remarkable stories of how the NHS on a daily basis deals with tragedy and life threatening conditions in an effective, caring and humane way. I felt that the programme dealt w...

On Tuesday 15 July 2008 Charlotte, Siobhan, Gemma and I, all members of the Clinical Negligence department, took part in ‘Store Wars’ – a charity fund raising event on behalf of Barnardo’s. The event was similar to a task from BBC’s ‘The Apprentice’, where for one day 3 teams of Pannone staff took over a Barnardo’s Charity Shop and tried to increase profits. There were raffles, celebrities, face p...

The 20th AVMA annual conference was another success. I did get a walk down the Prom this year but rather than balmy sunny weather I confess to feeling very windswept and a bit cold…

Lord Hunt’s keynote speech praised the progress of the NHSLA in speeding up medical negligence litigation but I would place that success squarely at the door of the Woolf reforms and the change in the Civil Proc...

As Jenny mentioned in her entry last week, a number of us from our clinical negligence department attended the AvMA Annual Conference in Brighton last week where Professor Richards, National Cancer Director, gave the keynote speech which was extremely interesting. He talked to us about the progress made in cancer services since the Calman-Hine Report and the plans under the Cancer Reform Strategy ...

3 members of the Clinical Negligence team are taking part in a charity event with a twist. Charlotte, Siobhan and I are competing in a ‘Store Wars’ event on behalf of Barnardo’s, a national charity which supports several projects in Manchester.

‘Store Wars’ will take place on Tuesday 15th July 2008. Pannone staff are taking over 3 Barnardo’s charity shops for the day and competing against ...

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