There has been a great deal of media interest in the case of Jacob Stratton who has been left with severe brain damage following out of hours GP negligence.Continue reading this article
Record meningitis pay out – Case Covered by BBC South East
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Record meningitis pay out – the family and Nick Fairweather discuss the case on BBC Radio Kent
There has been a great deal of media interest in the case of Jacob Stratton who has been left with severe brain damage following out of hours GP negligence.
At just 6 weeks of age Jacob, now aged 9, contracted pneumococcal meningitis which went undiagnosed despite his parents contacting out of hours GP practitioners, first by phone then by taking Jacob to a drop in centre.Continue reading this article
Sunday Times – £15m payout over baby’s brain damage
Article by James Gillespie Published: 10.07.2016
A CHILD who was 30 minutes from death following alleged blunders by two out-of-hours GPs has won a £15m settlement after being left severely disabled.Continue reading this article
£18,000 for double vision after removal of polyps
Our client, a man from Canterbury, Kent, had a septoplasty (procedure to straighten his nasal septum) followed by a bilateral FESS (functional endoscopic sinus surgery) operation to remove nasal polyps in May 2013Continue reading this article
Compensation claim for unqualified nurse carrying out cervical smears succeeds
Our client, Ms Heidi Smith, a 42 year old lady from Maidstone, Kent, was asked to attend her GP surgery at Brompton Road, Gillingham, for a routine cervical smear test in December 2008.Continue reading this article
£85,000 for failure to identify risk of DVT
Our Client, a 34 year old woman from Maidstone, Kent, was admitted to Tunbridge Wells Hospital on the 24th February 2012 with suspected appendicitis.
There was a delay in her being admitted to the surgical ward of around 17 hours. As a result she was left on a trolley waiting to be taken to theatre in the Accident & Emergency Department over night. Continue reading this article
We are 10 years old today
We are pleased to be celebrating our 10th birthday today, the firm having been established, originally, at 16 Station Road West, Canterbury, 10 years ago today.Continue reading this article
Fairweathers closes its Family Department
It is with regret that we announce the closure of our Family Department today.
The Department was set up, from scratch, in August 2007, a little over a year after Fairweathers was first established.Continue reading this article
£50,000 recovered for sciatic nerve injury
Our client, a 62 year old woman from Hove, East Sussex, suffered a sciatic nerve injury during a total hip replacement (THR) performed by orthopaedic surgeon Mr Pattison on 07.03.11.Continue reading this article
Woman secures £22,500 after failed double mastectomy at London hospital
Our client, a young woman from Tonbridge, Kent, was diagnosed in 2010 with the BRCA1 gene and elected to have a bilateral mastectomy at Guy’s Hospital under the care of Breast Surgeon, Mr Doeuk. Breast implants were inserted in October 2010. Continue reading this article