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
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
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
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
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
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
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
8th February 2023 – Our client Mr J instructed this firm as Executor of the Estate of the deceased who sadly died from head and neck cancer in 2019.
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6th January 2023 – Mrs T, a 73 year old woman from Margate, was diagnosed with severe aortic stenosis and concentric left ventricular hypertrophy following a collapse. Prior to this she had been fit and well, was completely independent and was a full time carer for her elderly father.Continue reading this article