http://www.legal-medical.co.uk news for the medico-legal industry Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:09:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en   A newborn baby has been given a tuberculosis vaccine overdose at Scunthorpe General Hospital, according to the boy's family. The boy was given 10 times the usual dose of 0.5mg of the BCG vaccine, according to the baby's family lawyers. The baby, who was born on February 5, is now being helped ... http://www.legal-medical.co.uk/news/baby-given-overdose-of-tb-vaccine.html   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 in May 2004. Ms Cabrera had ... http://www.legal-medical.co.uk/news/hospital-admits-failings-over-death.html Some 55 thalidomide victims in Scotland are to share £3.4 million of funding over the next three years. The money, from the Scottish Government, will be used to make changes to homes and enable people to buy specialist equipment. Thalidomide was...{+}The rest of this article is available to premium members only.Login or ... http://www.legal-medical.co.uk/clinical-negligence/3-4m-help-for-scottish-thalidomide-victims.html A police officer who lost a leg after a hospital allegedly failed to detect an artery blockage is to sue for compensation. Pc Miles Wilson, 37, was injured on November 17 last year after he fell while responding to an urgent call for assistance. He...{+}The rest of this article is available to ... http://www.legal-medical.co.uk/clinical-negligence/pc-sues-over-needless-amputation.html Ministers have decided against overturning a legal ruling affecting compensation payouts to workers suffering from an asbestos-related disease. The Government was accused of "abandoning" tens of thousands of workers who suffer from pleural plaques, which...{+}The rest of this article is available to premium members only.Login or Become a subscriber http://www.legal-medical.co.uk/personal-injury/asbestos-ruling-remains-in-place.html Hundreds of health trusts in England are putting patients at risk by not complying with safety alerts, a charity has said. Action Against Medical Accidents (AvMA) said that 300 trusts, around three-quarters of the country's total, had failed to comply...{+}The rest of this article is available to premium members only.Login or ... http://www.legal-medical.co.uk/clinical-negligence/trusts-not-complying-with-alerts.html A personal trainer left paralysed from the mid-chest down after a snowmobile accident on holiday has won 70% of her damages claim, which will be assessed at a later date. Mother-of-two Emma Moore was on a wintersports holiday at the Italian resort of...{+}The rest of this article is available to premium ... http://www.legal-medical.co.uk/personal-injury/paralysed-woman-wins-70-damages.html A man who lost his wife to lung cancer in August 2004 after doctors missed a tumour on an X-ray has been awarded a six-figure, out-of-court NHS settlement. Stephen Clark, 50, said he spotted the cancerous tumour on an X-ray he was shown by his wife...{+}The rest of this article is ... http://www.legal-medical.co.uk/clinical-negligence/six-figure-sum-for-cancer-widower.html The Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) has unveiled plans to help people with serious industrial diseases track down their employers' insurance records with the launch of a new database. The electronic database of employers' insurance policies will...{+}The rest of this article is available to premium members only.Login or Become a ... http://www.legal-medical.co.uk/personal-injury/insurance-help-for-ill-workers.html A woman was left in agony after a set of forceps were left inside her after a routine operation. Donna Bowett, 39, was left in "horrendous" pain by the error after undergoing routine surgery to remove her gall bladder at the Alexandra Hospital in Redditch,...{+}The rest of this article is ... http://www.legal-medical.co.uk/clinical-negligence/hospital-sorry-for-forceps-error.html