Having successfully obtained authorisation from the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) earlier in the year – Inquest Legal Solicitors Ltd have today officially launched as a new sole practice & legal consultancy business. Inquest Legal was set up by experienced healthcare lawyer Peter Wade, to provide a niche litigation support service to clinical negligence & personal …

Boost mental health funds or face sanctions – NHS England crackdown to ensure more cash reaches frontline. The Guardian is reporting today that NHS England has written to all 207 clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) to warn that they must deliver on a key NHS-wide funding pledge in order to meet the rising demand for help. …

The Medical Defence Union (MDU), the largest medical defence organisation (MDO) in the United Kingdom has recently called for there to be clearer guidance for Coroners, the police and the Crown Prosecution Service to prevent doctors being needlessly put through a gross negligence manslaughter investigation. The recent press release (read here: https://www.themdu.com/press-centre/press-releases/clearer-guidance-for-coroners-should-mean-fewer-manslaughter-investigations-mdu-says) followed oral evidence …

According to the Middlesbrough Gazette this week, a depressed Northeast dad took his own life just weeks after discharge from Roseberry Park Hospital. Christopher Stewart, a father-of-one, had been sectioned under the mental health act on 16 July last year, after having become depressed and isolated, after losing his job. Christopher was discharged on 21 …