Department: Medical Negligence

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Josie Robinson

Vaginal Mesh Victims: Still Waiting for Justice

Vaginal mesh redress scheme: victims continue to wait for government action In February 2024, the Hughes Report, authored by England’s...

Jodi Newton

NHS Maternity Failures: Nottingham Ockenden Report 2026

Nottingham maternity negligence: what the Ockenden Report means for affected families The Independent Maternity Review into maternity services at Nottingham...

Jodi Newton

BBC Panorama Exposes Maternity Failures at Nottingham NHS...

A new BBC Panorama investigation, “Maternity Failures: The Fight for Justice”, has brought renewed and deeply concerning attention to the...

Nicholas Leahy of Osbornes Law interviewed on BBC South East Today about maternity care at University Hospitals Sussex

Jodi Newton

Sussex maternity review: scope confirmed and more than 1,000...

First published 15 April 2026 · Updated 22 May 2026 In April 2026, the government announced that senior midwife Donna Ockenden would lead an independent review...

Jodi Newton

Racism in Maternity Care Still Persists

Racism in Maternity Care: Persistent Inequalities and the Urgent Need for Reform Racism in maternity care has once again been...

Jodi Newton

New Report Exposes Fundamental Failures in NHS Maternity...

Baroness Amos’ interim report lays bare a maternity system “not working for women, babies and families.” Last week the government-commissioned...

Jodi Newton

Addenbrooke’s Hospital Complaints

Review finds harm to children by surgeon at Addenbrooke’s Hospital An independent review by Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation...

Hugh Johnson

Jess’s Rule Rolled Out in England to...

Jess’s Rule establishes a “three strikes and rethink” approach for GP practices to prevent avoidable missed diagnoses deaths. The...

Hugh Johnson

New Medical Negligence Head for Osbornes to Spearhead...

Hugh Johnson joins Osbornes Law to lead the firm’s medical negligence team Hugh Johnson has been appointed as new...

Jodi Newton

HSSIB Review Exposes NHS Maternity Failures

Patient safety body HSSIB publishes exploratory review of maternity and neonatal services As Head of Paediatric and Birth Negligence cases...

Jodi Newton

Complaints Against Suspended Surgeon Ms Kuldeep Stohr

Ms Kuldeep Stohr, orthopaedic surgeon at Addenbrooke’s Hospital suspended In February 2025, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (CUH) confirmed...

Shivam Raja

Time To Move On From Physician Associates?

BMA raises concerns over patient safety: the risks of Physician and Anaesthesia Associates in the NHS The British Medical Association (...

Nicholas Leahy

Report highlights failings in maternity care

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has recently carried out a national review of 131 maternity inspections between 2022 and 2024, finding that failures...

Jodi Newton

What Is the Role Of a Physician Associate?

What does the Position of Physician Associate Mean for the NHS? There are many different jobs within the NHS, each...

Jodi Newton

New UK Supreme Court Ruling regarding Secondary Victims...

The Supreme Court has today, on the 11th January 2024, upheld the Court of Appeal’s order to dismiss the claims...

Jodi Newton

Secondary Victim Claims

Secondary victims in clinical negligence cases What is a secondary victim in clinical negligence cases? Most compensation claims are concerned...

Jodi Newton

Maternity and Neonatal Scandals: Lessons Learned

Will investigations into NHS maternity services lead to real change? Over the past 15 to 20 years, NHS maternity services have come...

Jodi Newton

Can you sue the NHS for waiting times?

The NHS is facing an unprecedented challenge with 7.47 million people waiting for routine treatments. This crisis impacts everyone, from those...

Jodi Newton

Hyponatraemia – Symptoms, Causes & Negligence

What is hyponatraemia? Hyponatraemia is a condition where sodium levels fall below a certain level, which can be dangerous. All...

Ambulance vehicles at the Royal London Hospital

Jodi Newton

Ambulance Delays Affecting Rapid Patient Treatment

Failure to Meet Ambulance Response Targets In 2017, the Secretary of State for Health accepted the new ambulance performance standards recommended...

Jodi Newton

Early Notification Scheme – is it helping or failing...

What is the Early Notification Scheme? The NHS Early Notification Scheme (“ENS”) has reached its sixth anniversary. Established in April 2017,...

Jodi Newton

Private Pregnancy Scans and Substandard Care

In the news, it has been reported that private clinics that offer pregnancy scans to women are not meeting the...

Elline Demetriou

Iron Infusion Injury Claims

The risk of extravasation injuries during iron infusion therapy Iron infusions, such as Ferinject, are often recommended for patients with...

Ambulance outside a hospital Accident and Emergency department.

Delayed transfer to Accident & Emergency causing harm

The Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch (HSIB) has identified that patients may come at risk of harm whilst waiting in ambulances...

Jodi Newton

Breast cancer screening mammograms and negligence

Breast cancer screening has improved significantly in the UK due to research bettering the understanding of this terrible disease, which...

Jodi Newton

Are maternity services safe? – Part 2

In April last year I wrote a piece about government setting up a taskforce to look into why there are...

Pregnant woman performing cardiotocography CTG

Jodi Newton

Poor interpretation of CTG can result in stillbirth...

Poor interpretation of a Cardiotocograph, more commonly known as a CTG, is a leading cause of stillbirth and brain injuries...

Insulin injection needle or pen for use by diabetics

Jodi Newton

Insulin overdose in hospitals due to limited staff...

A century ago, insulin was first used to treat a 14-year-old boy dying of type 1 diabetes. A hundred years later,...

Jodi Newton

NHS aims to reduce waiting times with Elective...

The NHS recently recorded their waiting list to be at 6.5 million, a record high. Much of this backlog is due...

Jodi Newton

Women from ethnic minorities experience worse maternity care

It has been reported today that the government has set up a new task force to look into why there...

Nicholas Leahy

Secondary Victim Claims

Court of Appeal Judgement on Secondary Victim Claims Judgment was today handed down by the Court of Appeal in the...

Jodi Newton

How do I obtain my GP medical records...

If you want to obtain copies of your medical records from your GP or the hospital where you have been...

Jodi Newton

NICE revises guidelines on Induced labour

Most babies are born naturally at around 40 weeks gestation. However, some pregnancies continue for longer. According to data from the...

medical negligence & the diagnosis Sepsis

Nicholas Leahy

Greater Awareness of Sepsis Needed

Greater awareness of Sepsis can lead to better outcomes As medical negligence lawyers, we were particularly interested to hear about...

Jodi Newton

What is the Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch?

The Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch (HSIB) The HSIB (Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch) is an independent organisation comprising a team of...

Nicholas Leahy

Legal Support For Bereaved Families

What legal support is available for bereaved families? The loss of a loved one is an extremely distressing time for...

Jodi Newton

Impacted Fetal Head During Labour

According to the World Health Organisation, labour is considered obstructed when the fetus cannot progress along the birth canal, despite...

Jodi Newton

Patient Safety Incident Response Framework

What is the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF) According to the NHS website, the PSIRF is a key part...

Jodi Newton

Delays in removing Ureteric Stents

In February 2020, the Health Care Safety Investigation Branch (HSIB) published an interim bulletin in relation to the ‘Unplanned delayed removal...

Jodi Newton

Patient Safety Investigations

Duty of Candour Investigating incidents that have led, or could lead to harm is an important safeguard for patient safety...

Jodi Newton

Review of poor maternity care at Basildon Hospital

At Osbornes our specialist medical negligence solicitors represent a number of women who have been affected by poor maternity care...

Jodi Newton

When is a referral urgent?

What is a referral and how is it arranged? Patients are entitled to ask to be referred for specialist treatment...

Jodi Newton

Parental Bereavement Leave & Pay

What is Parental Bereavement Leave and Pay? Parental Bereavement Leave and Pay is something that many parents will not be...

Jodi Newton

Three-Year-Old Takes First Steps Against the Odds

A three-year-old girl with cerebral palsy, who doctors believed would never walk, took her first steps on the first day...

Jodi Newton

Investigation Into 14 Year Old’s Death During MRI...

Introduction to the case A teenage girl with autism died following an MRI scan under general anaesthetic. This has sparked...

Jodi Newton

Misdiagnosis of heart problems

Failure to diagnose heart problems – education is the key Our hearts are the pumps that keep us alive by pushing...

Jodi Newton

Thinking of Cosmetic Surgery Abroad?

Cosmetic Surgery Abroad Checklist People from the UK travel abroad for plastic surgery, as on the face of it, it...

Jodi Newton

Never Events in the NHS

The NHS performs over 7 million surgical procedures every year, and the vast majority of these are successful. However, occasionally something...

Sodium Valproate Claims

Link found between Sodium Valproate and abnormalities in newborn babies Sodium Valproate, a powerful epilepsy drug prescribed in the UK...

Jodi Newton

Can A New Blood Test Diagnose Heart Attacks...

It has been recently reported that new research has developed new blood tests to diagnose heart attacks. The British Heart...

Nicholas Leahy

Bowel Cancer need not be a killer

Early diagnosis of bowel cancer is key. Cancer is a word that attracts stigma. Many people believe that if you...

Jodi Newton

When is Cataract Surgery Negligent?

Preventing Cataract Surgery Negligence Losing your eyesight is a life-changing experience. When preparing for surgery to save your eyesight, you...

Jodi Newton

Doppler scan could prevent half of stillbirths

Doppler scans could prevent as many as 2000 stillbirths per year The press has reported that as many as half of...