Recently issues relating to family planning and fertility in clinical negligence claims have come under renewed focus following the decision in Whittington Hospital NHS Trust…
There are currently over 50,000 people living with a spinal cord injury (SCI) in the UK and research published by the Spinal Injuries Association, Back…
Endometriosis affects up to 1 in 10 women in the UK. Despite the condition being far from rare, it is not a condition widely known…
These are truly testing times for all of us, unprecedented, nothing like we have experienced before. Now imagine being diagnosed or suffering with cancer during…
Last year I wrote a blog entitled “Claiming the costs of surrogacy in an action for personal injury” which looked at the Court of Appeal…
At Bolt Burdon Kemp we all too often see the effect that a delayed cancer diagnosis can have. A late diagnosis of reproductive cancer can…
Getting a smear, particularly for the first time, is often a case of putting your big girl’s pants on and being brave for a few…
In a study carried out by the organisation Birthrights, less than half of women they surveyed had the birth they wanted and many experienced lack…
Earlier this month one of our Senior Solicitors in our Complex Injury Team, Olivia Boschat, wrote a very interesting article for Female First highlighting the…
Tuesday 26th June 2019 saw the first ever London networking lunch meeting for the Women Lawyers And Mothers (WLAM) network. The lunch, organised by Hannah…
The aim of any personal injury claim is to return the injured party to the position they would have been in, had the accident not…
The recent news story about 18 year-old Ebony Stevenson, who woke up from a four-day coma caused by pre-eclampsia to find out she had given…
Are women in need of Caesarean sections being denied them on the NHS because of financial pressures? This question was posed to the Department of…
British women are said to experience, on average, 30 years of post-reproductive health. With or without a history of childbirth, these years can involve a…
Following concerns over the treatment provided by a radiologist at the Oxfordshire Breast Screening Service, 626 women had their breast cancer screenings reassessed by Oxford…
The Guardian reports that almost three-quarters of Britain’s pregnant women have still not received the flu jab this winter, according to Andrew Lansley, the health…
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