A haemophiliac who contracted HIV and hepatitis C from contaminated NHS blood has gone to the High Court seeking a judicial review of the Government’s decision over compensation.

Andrew March, 36, wants the court to overturn a decision by the health

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Hundreds of customers who bought “toxic” sofas which allegedly caused rashes and burns will not receive compensation from the manufacturers’ insurers, the High Court has ruled.

More than 300 customers were involved in the claim that the Chinese-made

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A woman has been awarded £500,000 after she was left infertile when two cervical smear tests were misdiagnosed, it has been revealed.

Samantha Burn, from Bourne, Lincolnshire, was tested twice in 2001, but was not diagnosed with cervical cancer

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The Tories have hit out over figures which reveal lengthy time scales for dealing with clinical negligence claims in Scotland.

The cases take between one and five years on average across Scotland.

On some occasions, cases took two decades to

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A health trust in charge of a hospital in which a woman died because she given the wrong drug almost six years ago has admitted breaking health and safety laws.

Mayra Cabrera, 30, died soon after she gave birth at Great Western Hospital in Swindon

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The father of tragic “right to life” baby RB has withdrawn his opposition to a High Court plea by doctors and the little boy’s mother for permission to switch off his life support.

The decision came on the seventh day of an emotionally-charged

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Scottish health chiefs have apologised “unreservedly” for a series of errors that led to the “preventable” death of a woman following surgery for breast cancer.

Marlene Wightman, 49, a mother-of two, of Dalkeith, bled to death in the early hours

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A mother whose baby died after medical staff misread vital signs is to take legal action against the Royal Oldham Hospital.

Tracy Last and her husband John, from Chadderton, near Oldham, had been desperate to have children, undergoing three years

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And the coroner has criticised the hospital for allowing observation of the boy by auxiliary staff to go unrecorded and unreported.

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