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10
Jan 2023

Section: Medical Negligence

Proton beam trial begins for breast cancer patients

A pioneering NHS trial is underway to assess whether proton beam therapy can help certain breast cancer patients.   The world-first study will compare the hi-tech treatment with standard radiotherapy for those considered to be at higher risk of long-term heart problems.   The treatment uses charged particles rather than x-rays to target tumours more…

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06
Oct 2020

Section: Medical Negligence

Huddersfield Royal Infirmary reveals new plan for A&E department

Significant investment at the hospital could see a new accident and emergency department up and running by 2023. However, the development, with £196.5m set aside for both the Huddersfield Royal Infirmary and Calderdale Royal Hospital, depends on whether concerns over the condition and reliability of “high risk” buildings at the Huddersfield site can be addressed.…

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01
Mar 2016

No prosecutions will be brought in relation to Mid-Staffordshire hospital deaths

Police have revealed that there will be no individual prosecutions in relation to the scandal in which hundreds of patients died. Despite a three year police review, which concluded that a catalogue of ‘organisational and individual failings’ at Stafford Hospital between 2005 and 2009 had contributed to ‘one of the greatest scandals of the NHS’,…

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