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02 September 2010
NHS obstetric services 'in crisis'
Despite receiving record funding and having achieved a surplus of £1.7 billion in 2007-08, the share of the NHS budget spent on maternity services has fallen from 3 per cent to 2 per cent since 1997 and obstetric services are now in crisis.
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02 September 2010
Cerebral Palsy claim against Rochford Hospital, Essex
An 18 year old girl has been awarded £4 million in compensation in a cerebral palsy claim against an Essex hospital.
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05 August 2010
Cerebral palsy claims arising from home births
An editorial in this week's medical journal The Lancet on home births says that while a woman has the right to choose where and how to give birth, she does not have the right to put her baby at risk.
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14 July 2010
Research suggests cooling treatment can reduce baby brain damage
Babies who have been starved of oxygen at birth have much less risk of suffering brain damage if they are given mild hypothermia.
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06 July 2010
Scope launches new web based evaluation tool
Celebrate Every Step is an exciting new web-based tool from Scope that will enable practitioners and parents to celebrate and track the progress of young children with physical, sensory and learning needs.
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30 June 2010
Cerebral Palsy compensation - £4 million payout for six-year-old girl starved of oxygen at birth
A six-year-old Kidderminster girl has been awarded a £4 million compensation payout after complications during her birth left her severely disabled.
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21 June 2010
Paul Maynard - the first MP with cerebral palsy to be elected to the Houses of Parliament
Boyes Turner extends warm congratulations to Paul Maynard the new MP for Blackpool North who we believe is the first MP with cerebral palsy to be elected to the Houses of Parliament. He writes an interesting article about the election, his CP and his thoughts about disability and making a difference in the June edition of 'Disability Now'.
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07 May 2010
Family of tetraplegic cerebral palsy sufferer secures over £6 million in compensation
The family of a girl who suffers from tetraplegic cerebral palsy as a result of mistakes made during her birth has been awarded in excess of £6 million in compensation.
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07 May 2010
Cerebral Palsy Baby - Parents "robbed of the baby we should have had"
As little Ruby Hanson celebrates her first birthday today, her parents are coming to terms with the cerebral palsy they believe was the result of medical negligence when she was born at North Devon District Hospital.
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07 May 2010
Parents awarded compensation after son born with cerebral palsy after hospital error
A mother whose son was starved of oxygen at birth leaving him disabled has been granted compensation to pay for his care.
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04 May 2010
Significant cerebral palsy compensation payout for girl born at Watford General Hospital
A five year old girl left severely disabled because of alleged failings at birth has received a seven figure payout in damages. She requires round-the-clock care after oxygen starvation in the womb left her with cerebral palsy.
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30 April 2010
Judgment secured against Leeds General Infirmary following traumatic birth injury
In April 2010 specialist cerebral palsy solicitor Adrian Desmond from Reading based law firm Boyes Turner secured Judgment against Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust for damages to be assessed in favour of a 5-year old child who suffered suffered a left-sided hemiplegia at his birth in 2004.
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29 April 2010
Cerebral palsy teenager disabled at birth is awarded £6.5 million in compensation
A young girl, now aged 15 was starved of oxygen during her birth resulting in severe cerebral palsy. She is unable to talk or walk without help and requires round-the-clock care. She sustained her injuries at Bridgend's Princess of Wales Hospital.
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28 April 2010
Cerebral Palsy Claim - disabled girl's £7m compensation payout from NHS
A disabled girl who was starved of oxygen at birth has been awarded up to £7 million in compensation from the NHS.
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15 March 2010
Adrian Desmond secures Judgment against hospital in dystonic cerebral palsy case
Specialist cerebral palsy lawyer Adrian Desmond acted for a boy whose dystonic cerebral palsy was caused by negligence of the doctors and midwives before his delivery.
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03 February 2010
Cerebral Palsy Claim - £5.6m compensation payout for girl who was brain damaged at birth
A girl who was starved of oxygen at birth and suffered severe brain damage, has been awarded £5.6m compensation.
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29 January 2010
Judgment secured against Northwick Park Hospital for profoundly and permanently injured child
On 13 January 2010, specialist cerebral palsy lawyer Adrian Desmond from Boyes Turner secured judgment against Northwick Park Hospital in North West London for damages to be assessed in favour of a 5 year old girl who was delivered at the hospital in 2004.
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18 January 2010
Lord Justice Jackson’s Review of Civil Litigation Costs
Lord Justice Jackson's recommendations about legal costs in his report published last week attack, as predicted, the soft target of personal injury claimants.
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29 December 2009
Newborn death - NHS maternity unit was ‘short of midwives’
"Scandalous" maternity services at Milton Keynes general hospital where newborn baby Ebony McCall died.
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26 November 2009
Ordeal of mums left alone in labour 'due to a midwives shortage'
Mothers have attacked NHS maternity care with more than one in three saying they were left alone and distressed during labour.
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02 November 2009
Common misspellings of 'cerebral palsy'
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27 October 2009
SCOPE is successful in fight to save disability living allowance
UK Disability charity SCOPE have been victorious in their campaign to save Disability Living Allowance and Attendance Allowance.
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11 September 2009
How do couples support each other during and after a traumatic birth?
A research project at University College London is looking at how couples try to help each other through a traumatic birth and the post-traumatic difficulties that can develop afterwards.
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26 August 2009
Boyes Turner launches seven major birth injury cerebral palsy claims this summer
Specialist cerebral palsy and birth injury lawyers at Boyes Turner launch seven claims this summer.
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14 May 2009
Cerebral Palsy sufferer allowed to proceed with medical negligence claim after statutory limitation period
A case has recently been reported about a man who was entitled to proceed with his claim for damages against a health authority some time after the statutory limitation period
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24 April 2009
AvMA calls for Government to make new law requiring that patients or their next of kin are told about incidents of medical negligence
Action against Medical Accidents (AvMA - the charity for patient safety & justice) has launched a campaign for the introduction of a legal duty of candour in healthcare in the UK.
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14 April 2009
Celebrity footballer helps raise awareness of cerebral palsy
BBC News has reported on the benefits of high profile celebrity footballer Phil Neville in helping to raise awareness of cerebral palsy and bring it under the public spotlight.
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03 April 2009
Seventeen stillbirths a day in the UK
SANDS - the stillbirth and neonatal death charity - has reported that 17 babies a day are stillborn or die shortly after birth in the UK.
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09 February 2009
High Court approves £1.5 million compensation settlement for 24 year old whose cerebral palsy was caused by hospital negligence
24 year old Sarah Hamblin's cerebral palsy was caused by hospital negligence at the time of her birth at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading. Today the High Court approved a compensation settlement of £1.5 million.
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05 December 2008
£4.89 million in compensation for family of child whose cerebral palsy was caused by negligence of hospital staff
Boyes Turner medical negligence lawyer Adrian Desmond recovered £4.89 million in compensation for a baby and his family after hospital staff negligence caused the baby severe cerebral palsy.
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30 October 2008
Cerebral Palsy compensation claim against NHS trust negligent system failure
In the recent and successful cerebral palsy compensation claim case of Stephen Lorraine v Wirral University Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, it was found that a negligent system failure on the part of the NHS trust caused claimant's cerebral palsy.
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26 August 2008
Maximum severity cerebral palsy compensation claim - over-21 age limit ignored
The High Court has used its discretion to allow a man with maximum severity cerebral palsy to sue the hospital he was born at, even though at over 21 years of age he is technically out of time. Medical negligence lawyer Adrian Desmond comments.
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30 July 2008
NHS increases chance of death for people with learning disabilities such as cerebral palsy
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08 June 2008
Medical negligence during birth - erbs palsy
Health service is sued for £65 million after mistakes in childbirth left children with paralysed arms.
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15 April 2008
Cerebral Palsy Compensation Claims - grandparents often initiate investigations
Of the 135 or so families that contacted Boyes Turner in 2007 who have a family member with cerebral palsy, over 30 came from the grandparent of the child. Does this suggest that parents can be reluctant to initiate a claim for their child?
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26 March 2008
Medical negligence at birth - nurse struck off
Medical News Today has reported that two midwives have been found unfit to practise by an independent Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) panel this week after failing to adequately care for a 'high risk' patient during labour. Leading medical negligence lawyer Adrian Desmond comments.
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05 March 2008
Failure - maternity units - variable quality of care
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29 February 2008
Hospital medical negligence - nurse falsifying records
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12 February 2008
Cerebral palsy children botox
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25 January 2008
Cerebral palsy and oxygen starvation birth injuries - London maternity service performs poorly
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14 January 2008
Hospital administration negligence putting lives at risk
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15 November 2007
Cerebral Palsy - The Disabled Children (Family Support) Bill 2007
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08 November 2007
Cerebral palsy - Mental Capacity Act 2005 and changes to the Court of Protection
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18 October 2007
Maternity units pay extra premium for medical negligence
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09 October 2007
Will hysterectomy give cerebral palsy girl a better life?
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19 August 2007
Cerebral palsy children have similar quality of life as their healthy peers
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13 August 2007
Cerebral palsy - parents of disabled children face poverty
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30 April 2007
Oxygen starvation claim - 1.25m compensation for birth injury
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28 April 2007
Greater rights and freedoms to disabled people
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30 March 2007
Cerebral palsy - Mental Capacity Act 2005
The Department of Health introduce a new Independent Mental Capacity Advocate service.
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02 March 2007
Cerebral palsy - respite care
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30 January 2007
The Ashley X Treatment - Help Scope (the cerebral palsy charity) defend disabled children's rights
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30 December 2006
Cerebral palsy - services for disabled children
Tom Clarke MP, chair of a cross-party group reports.
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20 December 2006
Cerebral palsy - does the UK have a compensation culture?
View the Government figures for the last five years.
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20 November 2006
Cerebral palsy claim - lump sum or periodical payment?
Which approach is most beneficial for the child?
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