For Debbie Westwick, the future is bleak. “I’m dying,” she says. Before her cancer kills her, however, she has one last battle to fight.
The 49-year-old nurse is campaigning against secrecy in the medical profession that allows doctors under sanctions by the General Medical Council or suspected of serious failings to continue working without their patients knowing of their alleged faults.Continue reading this article
Still no one held responsible for terminally ill nurse’s treatment three years after legal action.
A nurse who is suffering with terminal cancer fears she may die before anyone is held accountable for alleged failures in her treatment. Continue reading this article
In July 2006, Debbie Westwick, a 43 year old nurse, was diagnosed with cancer of her left breast. She was treated at the Kent & Canterbury Hospital, where she worked, by oncologist Howard Smedley and surgeon David Jackson. Unbeknown to her, Dr Smedley was subject to ‘supervision undertakings’ imposed by the GMC for reasons that they refuse to reveal. Mr Jackson was suspended in the middle of her treatment, subsequently sacked and referred to the GMC.Continue reading this article
The firm has featured heavily recently in BBC news coverage surrounding NHS damages payouts in medical negligence cases.Continue reading this article
Darren Tamplin, specialist medical negligence solicitor and head of the clinical negligence department at Fairweathers Solicitors LLP based in Canterbury settled a substantial orthopaedic claim on behalf of his client, Mrs B. Continue reading this article
Our client, a 49 year old woman from Canterbury, Kent, suffered a broken leg while walking her dog in a field.Continue reading this article
Our client, who was at the time a 27 year old mother of 2 from Ashford, Kent, came under the care of the University College Hospital in London for investigation of right arm pain.Continue reading this article
Our client, then a 32 year old woman, underwent an operation at the Kent & Canterbury Hospital in December 2007 without being given any adequate pre- or post-operative thromboprophylaxis treatment (i.e. anticoagulant medication such as Clexane or Warfarin).Continue reading this article
We are delighted to announce that Shantala Heath joins us today as a Trainee Solicitor.
Shantala graduated from the University of Kent with a first class honours degree in law in the summer of 2006.Continue reading this article
Our client, now a 44 year old woman, underwent what was intended to be a total abdominal hysterectomy (which would include the complete removal of the cervix) in December 2000.Continue reading this article