The death of a patient due to clinical negligence has led the NHS to terminate the contract of the private firm who provided the doctor.

Take Care Now hired Daniel Ubani to work in Cambridgeshire for the NHS.

But on his first shift as a UK locum, he killed patient David Gray with a painkiller overdose, reports the Guardian.

Ubani, a German national, was convicted in his home country of causing death by negligence in an incident which occurred in 2008.

He had flown in to take up his new post the day before and Ubani said that he had been "too tired" when he administered the drug, which was ten times more than the normal recommended dose.

The clinical negligence case led to an internal NHS investigation into Take Care Now.

It carried out 20 unannounced inspection visits and has declared that its dissatisfaction and concern with the overall performance of Take Care Now had led to a formal remedial notice being issued to the company.

An NHS trust has paid a substantial sum in compensation to a couple whose baby died due to errors during his birth.

Johanne Rees went into a ward at the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff when her waters broke at 18 weeks in 2005, but medics managed to stave off the birth until 32 weeks.

However, when the patient began to go into labour, the doctor who checked her said it was simply stomach ache and advised her to go to the toilet.

Ms Rees said she was screaming in agony and knew she needed an emergency caesarean, but was not taken for one for another two-and-a-half hours.

By the time he was delivered, baby Arun was brain dead. Ms Rees and her partner Krishna Govekar made the decision to switch off his life support on November 29th 2005.

Cardiff and Vale NHS Trust admitted liability and has now agreed to pay the couple £650,000 in compensation.

Earlier this month, a patient lodged a complaint with the Health Service Ombudsman alleging that delays in getting her to hospital led to her baby being stillborn.

A man is seeking compensation from an NHS trust after his wife died due to a series of hospital blunders.

Claire Joel, 28, was admitted to Medway Maritime Hospital in October last year so that she could give birth to her daughter, Kent News reports.

However, she experienced difficulties and staff did not react quickly enough, failing to administer antibiotics and delaying her emergency Cesarean. Ms Joel died from an infection five days after giving birth to her child.

The coroner’s statement said: "[There were] gross failures to provide the basic treatment and care that her medical condition required and she died from natural causes contributed to by neglect."

Her husband Mark said he is to pursue a compensation claim against Medway NHS Trust.

Earlier this month, it was revealed that patient Toni Dinan is seeking compensation from Scarborough and North East Yorkshire Healthcare NHS Trust, alleging that failures in her care led to her baby being stillborn.

A new report has discovered that as many as one in five young people is driving without the correct level of insurance.

The Motor Insurers Bureau (MIB) found that 250,000 people aged between 17 and 20 are taking to the roads without cover, putting insured drivers at risk if they are hit.

Many young people claimed they did not know that insurance is a legal requirement, while others said that the high cost of insurance has led to them breaking the law.

Ashton West, chief executive of the MIB, commented: "While we recognise the financial pressures for drivers taking to the roads for the first time, it is also a criminal offence to drive without proper insurance cover."

The MIB was established to deal with cases stemming from uninsured driver accidents and manages over 30,000 claims from people who have been hit by someone without cover every year.

Anyone involved in such an accident may wish to seek legal advice, as motoring claims can be complicated and lengthy.

Human error in an Essex hospital has led to the wrong patient being operated on, it has been revealed.

Staff at King George Hospital in Goodmayes made the mistake when two patients with the same name were treated on the same ward.

The victim endured a painful lung operation when it should have been given to the other man. It is not yet clear if he will be taking legal action against the hospital.

Joyce Robins, co-director of Patient Concern, commented: "The terrifying thing about this catalogue of disaster is that it is just the tip of the iceberg."

A spokesperson from the Department of Health insisted that patient safety is the NHS’s highest priority and claimed that 93 per cent of those treated are satisfied with their care.

Earlier this month, it was revealed that NHS compensation payouts for clinical negligence had risen by 22 per cent from 2008-09, amounting to some £807 million.

A couple from Wales have been paid compensation after a devastating blunder at an IVF facility led to them losing a second chance to become parents.

The pair, named only as Debra and Paul, were hoping to try for a second child through IVF using their last surviving embryo in December 2007.

However, due to mistakes which were blamed on staff being overworked, the embryo was implanted into the wrong woman.

When the mistake was realised, the other woman agreed to a termination, but Debra said she was devastated that her last embryo made up of her own biological material had been destroyed.

Cardiff and Vale NHS Trust apologised unreservedly for the mistake and has agreed to a compensation payout of approximately £25,000 after admitting to gross failures in care.

Debra and Paul have said they may use the compensation to pay for further IVF treatment using donated eggs.

According to the National Institute for Clinical Excellence, one in seven UK couples have difficulty conceiving and infertility is the most likely reason for a visit to the doctor after pregnancy.

Figures obtained by a newspaper have revealed that an NHS trust was forced to make one of the UK’s largest payouts for clinical negligence in 2007 after admitting liability for an incident in which a child was left disabled.

Swindon and Marlborough NHS Trust paid £3.6 million in compensation to the unnamed family two years ago, the Swindon Advertiser revealed.

The child in question was taken to the town’s former Princess Margaret Hospital in Okus, which is no longer in operation.

However, he or she did not receive adequate care and was left with permanent brain damage as a result.

Stephen Ellis, a spokesperson for Patient Care, said the payout was justified given the severity of the child’s injuries.

"What needs to be understood about that is we’re talking about children or babies with disabilities they have for the rest of their lives," he pointed out.

The trust paid the family as part of an out-of-court settlement and said it hoped the money would assist them in the future care of their child.

According to the Meningitis Trust, over 500,000 people in the UK have had some form of meningitis.

A 21-year-old man has been awarded compensation following a high court hearing after it was ruled that an NHS trust was responsible for the injuries he sustained during his birth.

Christopher James Langford was born at Sandwell Hospital in Tipton in 1987, local paper the Express and Star reports.

However, his mother began to suffer complications during the delivery. Although an obstetrician was called, he did not arrive and Christopher was starved of oxygen. He went on to develop cerebral palsy.

The court heard that had the doctor arrived when he was called, Christopher could have been delivered within nine minutes and that he would not have developed the disorder.

He will now receive a payout from the West Midlands Strategic Health Authority which is likely to run into millions of pounds in order to cover the costs of his long-term care.

A spokesperson for the trust said it "deeply regrets" Christopher’s injuries and it is now working towards a compensation settlement for him.

According to figures from Scope, one in 400 children born in he UK has cerebral palsy.