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Fairweathers’ Diversity & Equality Survey 2023

As a firm regulated by the SRA, we are required to collect, report and publish workforce diversity data about the diversity make-up of our workforce.Continue reading this article

£32,500 recovered for negligently performed endometrial ablation leading to a hysterectomy

6th July 2023 – Our client, a mother of two in her forties, underwent an endometrial ablation on 29.07.2020 by way of treatment for ongoing, debilitating menorrhagia.
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£70,000 recovered for death of newborn baby following substandard ultrasound scanning during pregnancy

6th July 2023 – Our client, woman now aged 22, from Canterbury, lost her first child when aged just 17 years due to failures in the ultrasound monitoring of her baby son during her pregnancy. Her antenatal care was provided by QEQM Hospital, Margate, run by East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust.Continue reading this article

£61,000 recovered for death of newborn baby due to substandard delivery care

6th July 2023 – Our client, a 39 year old woman from Surrey, lost her second child on 27.05.2019 following a traumatic birth at Epsom Hospital run by Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust.Continue reading this article

£525,000 for Botched Cholecystectomy

27th May 2023 – Our client, Ms D, from Thanet Kent, underwent what should have been a straightforward laparoscopic cholecystectomy at the Kent and Canterbury Hospital Canterbury over the summer of 2015. Continue reading this article

Nick Fairweather appears on Jeremy Vine show to discuss CQC’s findings on inspecting East Kent Maternity Units

26th May 2023 – Nick was one of the guests on the Jeremy Vine show today invited to comment on the findings of the Care Quality Commission when they inspected the East Kent Maternity Department in January of this year, finding appalling hygiene, equipment and clinical practices in place, to the point where closing the William Harvey Unit was a real possibility.Continue reading this article

£150,000 for Delayed Lung Cancer Diagnosis

4th May 2023 – Our client Mr T from Whitstable instructed Fairweathers after being diagnosed with terminal lung cancer. His grievance was that he had attended Accident & Emergency at Queen Elizabeth Queen Mother Hospital, Margate 11 months before his diagnosis and a chest x-ray taken at the time failed to trigger appropriate investigations. Very sadly Mr T died shortly after instructing us and his widow carried on with the claim in order to obtain answers on his behalf.Continue reading this article

£140,000 Compensation for serious Road Traffic Accident injuries

4th May 2023 – Our client Mr K from Herne Bay was involved in a serious road traffic accident in February 2020 when he was involved in a rear end collision whilst parked on the verge. Continue reading this article

Inquest into the deaths of Samantha Mulcahy and Kimberly Sampson begins

19th April 2023 – The inquest into the deaths of the two young mothers who died of disseminated herpes simplex virus two months apart have begun today at the Shepway Centre, Maidstone before Assistant Coroner Catherine Wood. Continue reading this article

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