1st September 2023 – Our client Mr M from Dover attended his GP with a lump in his abdomen which was diagnosed as a hiatus hernia by Mr Sanjoy Basu Consultant Surgeon at the One Hospital, Ashford.
Category Archives: Surgical errors
£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
Damages recovered for botched mastectomy performed by surgical Professor negligently recruited by East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust.
8th December 2022 – Our client, Mrs P from Dover, Kent found a lump in her right breast in May 2019 which was investigated and found to be a Grade 3 pleomorphic lobular carcinoma without metastases.
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£27,500 recovered in fatality case where hospital inserted drain on wrong side of chest
1st June 2022 – Our client Mrs D’s husband was admitted to Darent Valley Hospital, Dartford in September 2018 with suspected aspiration pneumonia. Unfortunately due to a combination of reasons including incorrect labelling of imaging and failure to use a chest drain safety check list a drain was inserted on the wrong side. Our client’s husband subsequently developed sepsis and sadly died within days. Continue reading this article
£115,000 recovered for botched surgery resulting in permanent stoma
16th February 2022 – Our client, a 56-year-old man from Kent, has been left with a permanent stoma as a result of post-operative complications following an operation to remove his rectal cancer which took place at the William Harvey Hospital in Ashford on 21.08.2017.Continue reading this article
£20,000 recovered for negligent catheterisation
8th July 2021 – Our client, a 75-year-old man from Kent, suffered a fractured left hip in a non-negligent fall and was taken to the QEQM Hospital in Margate on 30.11.2017.Continue reading this article
£21,000 for Anaesthetic Awareness during Surgery
31st March 2021 – Our client Mrs P from Ashford, Kent underwent a laparoscopic bilateral ureterolysis and excision of endometriosis at the Spencer Wing at William Harvey Hospital on 23.01.2019.Continue reading this article
£19,000 for negligently performed cataract surgery
3rd March 2021 – Our Client, Mrs H, an 86 year old woman from Margate, Kent came to see us following a complication she experienced during right sided cataracts surgery that took place in July 2018 at the Kent and Canterbury Hospital under local anaesthetic.
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£100,000 after Fatal Failure to Operate on Bowel Obstruction
9th September 2020 – Our Client Mr S from Kent lost his wife in September 2016 whilst she was under the care of East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust.
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£30,000 in Damages in Fatality case where Operation should never have taken place
16th April 2020 –
We represent Mr W, whose wife, Mrs W, tragically took her own life in June 2017.
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