1st February 2024 – Neuro-Behçet’s disease is a highly disabling complication of Behçet’s disease which can either cause inflammation of the brain / spinal tissue directly or inflammation and blockage of the blood supplying them.
Our client, Ms M, from Brighton, now aged 30, suffered severe headache symptoms late one afternoon in June 2010. She contacted the Brighton Out Of Hours service and was advised to attend the A&E department at the Royal Sussex County Hospital for assessment by an Out Of Hours GP. She was seen there later that evening. Her symptoms included the sudden onset of a ‘thunder clap’ headache with nausea, vomiting and neck pain, all quite different from the migraines that she had suffered with previously.Continue reading this article
There has been a great deal of media interest in the case of Jacob Stratton who has been left with severe brain damage following out of hours GP negligence.Continue reading this article
Article by James Gillespie Published: 10.07.2016
A CHILD who was 30 minutes from death following alleged blunders by two out-of-hours GPs has won a £15m settlement after being left severely disabled.Continue reading this article
Mr F, a 53 year old man, from Ashford, Kent, collapsed at his home in March 2007. He found himself lying on the floor with an agonising pain at the back of his head and neck, radiating to his forehead. The cause was a rupture of an aneurysm (ACA) resulting in a small sub-arachnoid haemorrhage (SAH). Mr F presented at Kent and Canterbury’s A&E where he underwent neurological examinations and X rays. He was admitted to a ward where further investigations were planned to exclude SAH as the cause of the symptoms. The results of these subsequent investigations were suggestive of SAH in the posterior sulci.Continue reading this article
Our client, a 75 year old woman, was provided with a repeat prescription for a range of medication including Raloxifene. Unfortunately, when this prescription was filled at the Valley Pharmacy (Croydon), Arcoxia was dispensed instead of the Raloxifene.
Our client did not notice the dispensing error and took the Arcoxia tablets for around 7 days, which resulted in her passing black diarrhoea. It was then discovered that our client had been taking the wrong medication and she was seen by her GP who diagnosed an internal bleed caused by the medication.Continue reading this article
The High Court in London today approved a £2.5m settlement reached on behalf of a Ramsgate man who has been left severely disabled by negligent treatment at the QEQM Hospital in Ramsgate.Continue reading this article
We have recently concluded a long standing fatality case on behalf of an Ashford lady whose husband’s death in June 2003 was caused by failings on the part of the William Harvey Hospital Ashford.Continue reading this article
Darren Tamplin has recovered £283,000 in damages for a widower and his young son following the death of their wife and mother through negligence at the William Harvey Hospital, Ashford.Continue reading this article