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Medical Litigation
http://www.medneg.com/, is
subscriber based and the annual fee is £120 plus vat (£141).
Our
case database, and all other data bases as described below are only
available to subscribers.
Established
in 1998, is now used by most clinical negligence practitioners,
including the NHS Litigation Authority, who enjoy the following
unique benefits:
· a Confidential Index of over
1,000 experts under specialities who have testified in open court
with relevant judicial comment - updated monthly;
· fast law reports, based on
official transcripts, with full analytical headnotes, tables of
cases and indexes prepared by experienced members of the Bar.
· authorities considered, applied,
distinguished, overruled and otherwise judicially considered;
· indexes of over 1,200 practising
lawyers with direct links to reported cases in which they have
appeared - and the results;
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MRSASUPPORT
46 Great Stone Road
Northfield
Birmingham, B31 2LS
Tel: 0121 476 6583
Email:
info@mrsasupport.co.uk
Website:
www.mrsasupport.co.uk
The number of cases of MRSA is likely
to rise to more than 100,000 over the next 12 months.
To date,
around 7,000 patients have contracted MRSA each year in hospital and
5,000 die each year as a direct cause.
MRSASUPPORT:
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Formed to provide practical and
moral support to all involved.
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Most patients don't know that they
have been infected and then when informed don't know what to do!
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Most hospitals call MRSA an "infection" without telling the
whole truth.
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As well as offering immediate help, in conjunction with HAIR
(Hospital Acquired Infection Register) we shall campaign for a
cleaner approach to hospital hygiene.
Members of MRSA SUPPORT have
published a booklet aimed at helping hospital patients and
visitors to defend themselves from picking up the MRSA bug.
Compiled by their chairman Tony Field, the booklet entitled "MRSA
- A PATIENT'S DEFENCE!" outlines practical steps which can be
taken to help prevent the spread of the deadly infection.
The booklets cost £1.00 (including
postage).
To join the group; the annual subscription is £7.50 (this includes
the booklet and 10 newsletters).
Please make cheques payable to MRSA SUPPORT (Please remember to
include your name and address. Thank you.)
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NHS-Exposed
For further information and
assistance, please contact :
Dr. Rita Pal,
Racial Equality
2000,
P.O. Box 8553,
Sutton Coldfield,
WEST MIDLANDS.
B76 2BS
Tel (Mobile): 07788 944 982
Email:
racialeq2000@nhs-exposed.com or nhs-exposed@btinternet.com
Website:
http://www.nhs-exposed.com/index.html
The truth behind the white coat - a
campaign for individual rights within the NHS.
Extract from the website: To
experience the working environment of the NHS today means having to
compromise on the ideal healthcare and to throw away personal
altruistic beliefs about human life. Financial constraints hits the
workforce on every side. The nursing staff are the main casualties
of the NHS today - bed crisis means nurse crisis.
Nursing workload is far greater
during shifts oncall - having to do the work of three individuals on
a shift because of cutbacks. No replacements for long term absent or
retired staff ; no incentives and paid badly for the high standard
of work that is required for every patient. Excessive work schedules
unfit for any person by European working standards.
As a junior doctor I was forced to
work extra hours without extra pay or gratitude; ordered by
management to clerk additional patients that had been on waiting
lists for many years (without contractual job obligations) ; forced
to watch treatment being withdrawn on the elderly because "we are
short of beds" and having to stay “ silent “ for fear that your
career maybe ruined. I have worked under conditions where there were
no intravenous lines available to provide basic fluids , no drip
sets on the wards , an inadequate number of nursing staff ratio so
that daily observations could not be done and patients left to die.
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NHSEXPOSE
www.nhsexpose.co.uk
This
Website Is One Individual's Attempt To At Last Tell The Truth About
The "Real NHS" And The "Silent Pressure" That Exists Within The
Service Which Prevents People From Revealing The Facts About Today's
NHS.
My
Name Is Ian Perkin And I Told The Truth About The Fiddling Of
Cancelled Operations At St George's Hospital In October 2001 And
About The Dire Financial Situation Of That Same Hospital Trust To
The External Auditors PricewaterhouseCoopers In July 2002. As A
Result, On The 29th July 2002, I Was Asked By The Chief Executive To
Resign From My Post As St George's Finance Director.
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NHS Code of
Practice on 'Openness in the NHS'
This NHS Executive website outlines
the Codes of Practice and provides information on what information
NHS Trusts are obliged to provide.
Website:
http://www.doh.gov.uk/nhsexec/codemain.htm#codeprinciple
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Patients'
Association
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Patient Information Leaflets
Website:
http://www.mentor-update.com/
PILs has a huge self help database
(choose text
only version if you have problems accessing the self help database)
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Patient UK
Website:
http://www.patient.co.uk/
This is a UK website, aiming to
help non-medical people find information about health issues
primarily from UK sources. Health professionals may also find the
information useful. Many useful organisations listed here.
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Public Concern
at Work
Suite 306
16 Baldwins
Gardens
LONDON EC1N 7RJ
Tel: 0171 404 6609
Fax: 0171 404
6576
Email: whistle@pcaw.demon.co.uk
Public Concern at Work promotes
accountability and good practice in
the workplace.
We do this by helping ensure concerns about serious
malpractice are properly raised and addressed
before the public interest
is harmed. Recognised by the UK government and
others as the leading
organisation in this field, we are a
completely independent charity.
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Relatives' Association
Tel: 0171 9166055
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Self Help UK
Website:
www.self-help.org.uk
Self Help UK
provides a searchable database of over 1,000 self help organisations
and support groups across the UK that offer support, guidance and
advice to patients, carers and their relatives
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SIN (Sufferers
of Iatrogenic Neglect)
SUFFERERS of IATROGENIC NEGLECT
Iatrogenic = Medically Induced Damage
For information please contact
either Co-Director:
Gillian Bean
Tel/Fax: 0115
9431320
e-mail:
sinfo@cwcom.net
or
Margaret MacRae
Tel/Fax: 0192 4407195
e-mail:
Mag@sinfo.freeserve.co.uk
website:
http://www.sin-medicalmistakes.org/
SIN is a pressure and support group
for victims of poor medical care and their relatives who wish to
improve standards in the NHS.
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UKCC (United
Kingdom Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting)
23 Portland Place
London, W1N 4JT
Tel: 0171 6377181
Fax: 0171
4362924
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Voluntary Euthanasia Society
13 Prince of Wales Terrace
London W8 5PG
Phone: 0171 937 7770
Fax: 0171 376
2648
E-mail:
info@ves.org.uk
Website:
http://www.ves.org.uk/index.htm
The Voluntary Euthanasia Society
campaigns for wider choice at the end of life. As well as our
political campaign to legalise assisted dying, we also supply living
will forms for the advance refusal of medical treatment.
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