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Tristan Hallam: nervous shock
7 February 2012
The body reacts differently in different circumstances. In most cases where an accident occurs and assuming the accident has been minor, there is generally no psychiatric injury.
The test in establishing psychiatric injury is to what extent a person who has suffered a recognisable psychiatric injury. (Note please - there is no requirement to establish this element of recognisable psychiatric injury in a claim under the Harassment Act where all one need establish is ‘distress’). Comment must therefore be made by a consultant psychiatrist and by way of reference to the International Classification Diseases (ICD 10) or the Diagnostic Systems Manual (DSM IV) and should be referred to in the medical report from a consultant, with comment on the psychiatric injury sustained.
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Paul Sankey: Finance doctors for our hospitals: from sub-prime mortgages to the NHS
7 February 2012
So the people who gave AAA ratings to a worthless pile of paper called sub-prime mortgages are now to assess the financial health of our hospitals. Firms like Standard and Poor’s, Fitch and Moody’s may to be asked to assess whether hospitals are financially robust enough to treat patients in the future under an idea put forward by the NHS regulator.
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James Bell: Weekend worry for NHS patients
7 February 2012
A study by the Royal Society of Medicine reveals that patients are 16% more likely to die if they are admitted at the weekend. This backs up the general views of clinical negligence lawyers and coroners over recent years.
This is a definitive study - 14.2 million patients.
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Pilot awarded six-figure damages sum after crash
6 February 2012
A six-figure personal injury compensation sum has been awarded to a pilot who cheated death in an accident at work.
According to the News & Star, Jim Martin has been granted more than £100,000 in damages after an incident in which the aircraft he was controlling...
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Fatal accident to lead to damages?
6 February 2012
Personal injury compensation may be sought by a family after a loved one passed away during a fatal accident at work.
Steven Allen died in March 2007 at the age of 23 from severe crush injuries he sustained while working for construction company JN Bentley - a firm based in Skipton with more...
