£45,000 recovered for failure to treat eye injury

£45,000 recovered for failure to treat eye injury

Our client, a 47 year old woman from Newhaven, East Sussex, accidentally squirted wood glue (a white PVA-type glue) into her eyes on 29.12.12. She immediately washed out her eyes, removing all of the glue from the left eye, but being unable to do so from the right eye. She therefore attended the Sussex Eye Hospital, arriving within 1 hour of the incident occurring.

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A & E Suicide Fatality case settles for £150,000

A & E Suicide Fatality case settles for £150,000

In March of last year we reported that two local NHS Trusts had admitted liability for substandard treatment of Simon Willson, who died on 23.01.10, at the Kent and Canterbury Hospital, Canterbury, aged just 34, when he took his life by hanging himself with his belt, within the disabled toilet, following admission to hospital having taken an overdose.Continue reading this article