Looking back on all of our achievements this year makes us incredibly proud and very grateful to our amazing team who work so hard to make Speed Medical the fantastic company it is. We wouldn’t be where we are without our people, and we hope everyone at Speed Medical has a very merry Christmas and a fabulous new year!

With so many incidents of maternity failings coming to light, what is being done to ensure that mothers and babies remain safe during labour and that the care they receive is of the highest standard?

With an estimated 1,390 deaths in 2021 and over 21,000 serious injuries caused by a road traffic collision ‘safe roads for all’ is the theme and key message for this year’s Road Safety Week which, as well as raising awareness and spreading a strong message of how to be as safe as possible on the roads, “gives us all the opportunity to remember people killed or injured on UK roads, and raise funds to help Brake care for road victims and campaign for safe roads for all.” Here we explore Road Safety Week in a little more detail.

Serious Injury Spotlight: Spinal Injuries Today we're focusing on spinal and spinal cord injuries. What are they? How can they occur? What treatment may be necessary to aid in recovery?

A traumatic brain injury can have a substantial and permanent effect on someone’s life. Many people with a TBI become unable to communicate, have difficulty with mobility, become unable to walk or move altogether, lose capacity to make decisions regarding their health and finances, and suffer massive phycological damage as a result of their injury. Although a full recovery may never be achieved following a TBI, rehabilitation and a journey back to health and a new way of living is vital and Speed Medical can help support your client every step of the way. We offer a range of services from medical assessments, diagnosis, and rehabilitation to mental health services and medical reporting.

When someone is involved in an accident or sustains an injury through no fault of their own, they are entitled to compensation to help support their recovery, offset loss of earnings, cover upfront expenses relating to the injury, and to compensate for any pain, suffering, or detrimental effect on the claimant’s quality of life. Deciding the right amount of compensation to award a claimant can be difficult and is based on several factors including the severity of the injury and the level of impact it has on the claimant’s life now and in the future. Here we discover complex cases and compensation in a little more detail.

An accident or injury can be a life changing event and it can have a huge impact on your client mentally as well as physically. With World Mental Health Day taking place today, we’ve taken a closer look at the impact an injury or condition can have on someone’s mental health, and how we can help in the physical and mental recovery process.

A little while back we wrote a blog about the government’s plan to cap pay-outs on clinical negligence cases in order to save the NHS an estimated £454 million over 10 years. Although the NHS is in no position to be paying out large sums of compensation, the fixed cost plan means that genuine victims of clinical negligence are going to struggle to find legal representation due to the fact that some law firms are now reluctant to take on cases valued at £25,000 or less. Today we explore this in a little more details.