Medical negligence
Cancer must be detected in darker skins too
It’s a common misconception that only white people, especially the fair-skinned, risk developing skin cancer. Advice about high-factor sunblock, seeking shade and covering up are most vigorously targeted at people who do not tan or have many freckles or moles. Yet, this widespread advice, while helpful to many, could inadvertently have created a deadly myth. […]
Special measures and NHS hospitals
The worst hospitals are costing us millions. What happens to them? Recently released figures from the NHS Litigation Authority have shown that hospitals at the centre of recent medical negligence scandals have cost the NHS almost £300 million in damages since 2009. In total 14 hospitals were investigated over their high death rates, and 9 […]
