Mr L, a 37 year old man from Gillingham, suffered a significant supracondylar fracture in his elbow in April 2011 following an accident whilst playing football.
He was taken to Medway Maritime Hospital, Kent, by ambulance and his fracture was identified. He was told that he would require open reduction internal fixation surgery, which would be carried out following a CT scan.Continue reading this article
We reported previously (17.12.13:- Breast cancer test result blunder – case settles) on the South London Healthcare NHS Trust admitting liability, in this breast cancer case, for the serious mistakes that took placed at Farnborough Hospital in South London.Continue reading this article
We represent the family of Simon Willson, who died on 23.01.10, at the Kent & Canterbury Hospital, aged just 34, when he took his own life by hanging himself with his own belt, within a disabled toilet, following admission to hospital having taken an overdose.Continue reading this article
Article by James Gillespie Published: 30.03.2014.
The General Medical Council has been accused of allowing a disgraced surgeon who botched a string of operations to “get away with it” after he was permitted to remove his name voluntarily from the medical register.Continue reading this article
Fairweathers Solicitors LLP attended KM Big Quiz tonight.
Over £7,000 was raised which was a record for a Medway quiz event.Continue reading this article
We have just learned that the GMC has allowed disgraced Consultant Surgeon, David Jackson, to remove himself from the Medical Register on a voluntary basis.
The decision came after a GMC panel heard evidence on the issue in private, (excluding the public, including patients and their relatives who were victims of Jackson).Continue reading this article
It has been reported in the BBC News that Maidstone Hospital, Kent, has halted gastrointestinal (GI) key-hole surgery for 12 months following the revelation that five deaths could have been avoided.Continue reading this article
Sherry Inkin, mother of Lisa Inkin, who died in April last year aged just 21, when she took her own life by jumping in front of a Tube train, has appeared on Radio Kent this afternoon, alongside Nick Fairweather (who represents Sherry) talking about the factors that she believes caused her daughter’s death.
Lisa suffered with chronic anorexia.Continue reading this article
Article by James Gillespie Published: 09 March 2014.
The mother of a vulnerable anorexia sufferer sent to a private hospital because no NHS beds were available near her home has described the torment of thinking she had missed a chance to save her daughter from taking her life.
Lisa Inkin, 21, died last April when she jumped in front of a Tube train at 10.28am at Victoria station in central London. She had texted a suicide note to her mother, Sherry, 11 minutes earlier but it did not arrive until 10.40am, by which time Lisa was dead.
Sherry, 52, has since seen CCTV images of Lisa on the platform. “She looks focussed, just staring straight ahead of her, just totally switched off,” she said.Continue reading this article
The well known Peer, and advertising guru, Lord Saatchi, is seeking to introduce a Medical Innovation Bill to safeguard cancer doctors from a perceived risk of litigation if they engaged in unorthodox treatments in seeking to cure those who are terminally ill in the late stages of the disease.Continue reading this article