A FORMER health worker has won £825,000 damages from a health trust after being seriously injured in attacks by patients.
Lisa Carter, 38, was repeatedly punched, stamped on and bitten in a series of vicious assaults while working as a community carer for people with severe learning disabilities.
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Members of the judiciary and family lawyers have warned that a government-imposed hike in the cost of taking children into care could increase the numbers in danger of suffering domestic abuse.
In May, the Ministry of Justice increased the legal fees that local authorities have to pay to bring court proceedings associated with the procedure. The cost rose dramatically from around £100 to £2,225.
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High court rules that Georgina Downs has produced "solid evidence" that people exposed to chemicals used to spray crops have suffered harm
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As surgeons caution against treatments designed for cancer patients being used for cosmetic purposes, the consumer group Which? is calling for tighter regulation of clinics, and one patient left permanently scarred tells of the devastating psychological impact
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Italy's top court has awarded a man the right to disconnect the feeding tube that has kept his comatose daughter alive for 16 years.
Eluana Englaro, 37, has been in a coma since a car crash in 1992.
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THE former assistant manager of a medical practice in Workington, “cooked the books” to pay herself tens of thousands of pounds more than she was entitled to, a court heard on Tuesday.
Sandra Lancaster, 50, got away with so much from the Ann Burrows Thomas Health Centre, in South William Street, Workington, that at one time she was taking home more than some of the doctors, it was alleged.
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The former assistant manager of a medical practice in “cooked the books” to pay herself tens of thousands of pounds more than she was entitled to, a court heard.
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A woman who thought she had been fitted with a contraceptive implant and then gave birth to a girl who died has won an out of court settlement.
Sarah Moss, 22, from St Helens, went for the implant at Haydock Family Planning clinic on Merseyside in 2006.
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A man banned from approaching health workers in Cumbria has appeared in court accused of talking to a receptionist at Carlisle’s Carleton Clinic.
Robert Oldfield, 35, was banned by an antisocial behaviour order from approaching anyone working for the Cumbria Partnership NHS Trust.
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A terminally ill teenager has won a legal battle against a hospital's attempt to force her to have a life-saving heart transplant against her will.
Hannah Jones, 13, decided against the surgery, saying she wanted to die with dignity surrounded by family and friends. But her local hospital, Hereford hospital, instigated high court proceedings to remove her, temporarily, from her parents custody to allow the transplant.
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A terminally-ill 13-year-old girl has persuaded a hospital to abandon legal action that could have forced her to have a potentially life-saving heart transplant against her will.
Hannah Jones, who suffers from a rare form of leukaemia, told doctors that she believed the treatment was too risky and that she would prefer to enjoy her remaining days in the company of family and friends. But in complex right-to-die case, her local hospital began High Court proceedings to temporarily remove her from her parents' custody to allow the transplant to go ahead.
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At an age when most teenage girls are thinking about school, boys and pop music, Hannah Jones is hoping only to be allowed to die with dignity. Hannah, who is 13 and terminally ill, has persuaded a hospital to withdraw a High Court action that would have forced her to have a risky heart transplant against her will.
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Parents invariably want the best possible medical treatment for their children and often go to extraordinary lengths to get it. Barely a week goes by without news of another desperate family selling possessions, remortgaging their home or undertaking heroic fundraising efforts to get together money for treatment not available on the NHS.
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Children have, since the 1980s, been able to give consent to treatment if they have “sufficient understanding”, a deliberately fluid concept that allows clinicians to respond to individual cases.
But there is concern where children refuse treatment that seems to be in their best interests, particularly if it is life-saving.
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At 13 and with a terminal heart condition, Hannah Jones has had enough of hospitals.
So when doctors suggested she might need a heart transplant, she took a deep breath and just said No.
Hannah explained that she would rather spend any time she had left at home with her family.
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A terminally-ill girl has won the right to die after a hospital ended its bid to force her to have a heart operation.
Herefordshire Primary Care Trust dropped a High Court case after a child protection officer said Hannah Jones was adamant she did not want surgery.
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DISABILITY campaigners have won the right to take Liverpool City Council to the High Court in their battle for safe taxis.
In March, licensing chief Malcolm Kelly sparked outrage from local disability groups when the committee he chairs refused to license the wheelchair-friendly Peugeot E7 taxi.
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A FIRE-service worker who has the HIV virus is to get a payout after suing his brigade for discrimination.
In a landmark case Michael Ashton, who worked in the control room at Greater Manchester Fire Service's headquarters in Pendlebury, had claimed disability discrimination.
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AN ACTON Bridge man fighting an ongoing legal battle with the health authorities has a new date for an independent panel to review his bid for “justice”.
Stephen Johnson, of Strawberry Lane, Acton Bridge, will renew his three-year battle with Central and Eastern Cheshire Primary Care Trust (PCT) on November 24 and 25.
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A couple prevented from adopting a baby girl because they once slapped another child for swearing won a court's backing today when a judge branded the ban 'bizarre'.
The 'caring and sensitive' couple had been told by a council they could not take in the half-sister of a little boy they adopted five years ago.
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