Jail sentence for multi-million pound attempt to claim damages from NHS
At a committal hearing on Thursday 26 May 2022, Holly White was sentenced to six months in jail for deliberately attempting to defraud the NHS of in excess of £4 million. She has also been ordered to pay back £45,000 of interim payments, and meet …
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NHS Resolution signs up to use the HMCTS Damages Claims Portal
In support of the HM Courts & Tribunals Service (HMCTS)’s goal to create an end-to-end digital service for claims in the County Court, NHS Resolution have confirmed all of their legal panel firms have registered and will be using the Damages Claims Portal (DCP), which …
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Case of Note: JA v. Mid-Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (High Court, 26 January 2022 – Eyre J.)
Introduction This hearing involved an attempt to re-open a clinical negligence claim over fifteen years after it had originally been discontinued during a hearing before another High Court judge. Details JA was born in 1997 and suffers from severe cerebral palsy. He was delivered by …
Learning from medication errors
Medication errors are any Patient Safety Incidents (PSI) where there has been an error in the process of prescribing, preparing, dispensing, and administering, monitoring or providing advice on medicines. Medication errors can occur at many steps in patient care, from ordering the medication to the time …
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Case of Note: Evie Toombes v. Dr. Mitchell (High Court 21 December 2020 – Lambert J. and 1 December 2021 – Judge Coe QC)
Introduction This was an unusual case which appeared before the High Court on two occasions. It involved alleged negligence by Dr. Mitchell, a general practitioner, in giving advice to Evie’s mother in February 2001 concerning folic acid supplements. Evie was born in November 2001 and …
Important information for your IT Team
After launching Internet Explorer in 1995, Microsoft will be retiring its web browser Internet Explorer (version 11) from June 2022, in favour of the more powerful and modern Edge browser. In preparation, if your organisation uses our NHS Resolution Extranet, Claims Management and Document Transfer …
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Continuing to support the Covid-19 response and NHS staff during the pandemic
As we enter into the second autumn of the pandemic, we continue to work with our partners to support the Covid-19 response and NHS staff. We’ve been working with the Department of Health and Social Care and NHS England and NHS Improvement to ensure that …
Case of note: Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust . AKC (High Court, 29 September 2021 – Steyn J. and Master Brown)
This was a complex and high value clinical negligence case involving the treatment of a cerebral arterio-venous malformation in 2012. The trust admitted liability and settlement received court approval in 2019. Solicitors for the claimant submitted a bill of costs exceeding £1m. NHS Resolution argued …
