We were recently asked a question by a client regarding whether her grandmother would require permission to make structural alterations to her leasehold property. One of our legal experts responded as follows: More...
In the year ending April 2017, there were 15,722 deaths in hospital or within 30 days of discharge, where sepsis was the leading cause, and Prof Sir Brian Jarman, Director of the Dr Foster research unit at Imperial College in London, believes staff shortages and overcrowding on wards are partly to blame.
However, an NHS England spokesperson rebutted this comment, stating that the increased figures were due to a huge effort across the NHS to increase the clinical recognition of sepsis and the improved methods of recording and classifying deaths attributed to Sepsis. More...
