Our Client, Mr H, attended his GP and the Dermatology Clinic at the QEQM numerous times with a suspicious skin lesion on his nose. A biopsy was taken, results of which showed actinic keratosis (a pre-invasive form of skin cancer). Unfortunately this did not pick up the squamous cell carcinoma (cancer) present and so it took 5 more months before Mr H was correctly diagnosed, in which time his cancer had progressed to stage 2. Continue reading this article
Our client, a 70 year old man from Hailsham, in East Sussex, died in May 2013, from rectal cancer, following serious errors at Eastbourne District General Hospital, the responsibility of East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust.
Our client was referred to the hospital late in 2007, with an altered bowel habit and abdominal pain, following which he underwent colonoscopy in December 2007. This revealed a small tumour in the sigmoid colon, which biopsy showed to be cancerous, together with a benign polyp in the rectal region.Continue reading this article
Our client, Ms B, from Maidstone, Kent, was misdiagnosed with myeloma (a malignant tumour of the bone marrow) in November 2012 during a routine consultation with a Locum Consultant employed by Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust.Continue reading this article
Mr D was referred to the Queen Elizabeth Queen Mother Hospital, Margate by his GP in March 2008 following an episode of haematuria with left groin pain. The hospital took no action and as a result of this omission appropriate investigations were not undertaken and Mr D’s diagnosis of renal tumour was delayed by more than 2 years.Continue reading this article
We reported previously (17.12.13:- Breast cancer test result blunder – case settles) on the South London Healthcare NHS Trust admitting liability, in this breast cancer case, for the serious mistakes that took placed at Farnborough Hospital in South London.Continue reading this article
We act for RB, in a claim arising out of the death of his wife, CB, from breast cancer, in April 2009. CB was just 44 when she died leaving RB and their young son, GB.
Over the summer of 2002, CB noticed a lump in her right breast.Continue reading this article
We reported, in our last article, on the outcome of the Parliamentary Health Service Ombudsman’s investigation into Debbie Westwick’s breast cancer care and into the handling of her complaints by the East Kent NHS Foundation Trust and Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust.
Within that article we acknowledge the importance of media coverage.Continue reading this article
The Parliamentary Health Service Ombudsman has now produced a report dealing with the complaints of our client, Debbie Westwick, in relation to the breast cancer treatment she received from the Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust and the East Kent Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
The details of Debbie’s case have appeared in previous news articles.Continue reading this article
Within previous Inside Story features we have highlighted the case of Debbie Westwick, a Nurse from Canterbury, who suffered substandard treatment at the Kent and Canterbury Hospital under the auspices of the Kent Oncology Centre. Continue reading this article
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