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The General Dental Council (GDC) has started an investigation into a Dental surgery after it agreed to an out-of-court settlement following a two year legal battle against one of its dentists at the surgery by an ex patient.
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A man has been rushed to hospital following an accident involving multiple vehicles, one of which was a tractor and a trailer. Emergency services responded promptly to the calls to attend the crash scene at around 6 pm despite it being in a very rural area.
‘Never events’ are when surgical equipment such as swabs, scissors and needles are left inside patients after an operation. They should never happen, fortunately, they are extremely rare but it appears that some hospitals make more mistakes than others.
From November 2014, NHS provider bodies registered with the Care Quality Commission (CQC) are required to comply with a new Statutory Duty of Candour (DOC). Independent sector health providers will also need to comply from 1 April 2015, subject to further legislation.
A 60-year old man from Southport fell 4 metres off a bungalow roof and fractured his skull and back and broke several ribs in the process.
The man was asked to repair a broken ridge tile on the roof of a bungalow. He normally works for a company that specialises in manufacturing and repairing electrical test equipment but the managing director is also a landlord for several homes and asked him to do the repair work on his properties.
The amount of patients dying needlessly in NHS hospitals has exploded with an increase of 500% in the last 10 years. The increase has been blamed in part on medical prescription errors and the adverse side-effects of their medicines. Questions are being asked whether this could simply be solved by having more checks in place.
A well-known global banking firm has been hit with multiple allegations from a high earning female executive who claims she has experienced sexist and maternity discrimination from bosses and male colleagues.
A mother of a 10 year old boy is suing Watford General Hospital claiming medical negligence. The young boy, who is now aged 11, was born with existing medical conditions, including a cleft lip and palate and two holes in his heart. He has had 14 operations and has spent much of his life in and out of Hospital however he suffered a cardiac arrest last year after being given Heparin, which left him in a quadriplegic state.
Car enthusiast gets the boot
Well, what a fracas.
We’re not talking just about the incident that led to the non-renewal of Jeremy Clarkson’s BBC contract, but also about the public outcry the whole situation has generated. What exactly happened in that hotel, we don’t know. And until very recently we didn’t know what the consequences would be for the Top Gear presenter. But what we have known all along is that employers up and down the country face comparable conundrums to those in charge of Clarkson’s fate.