Category Archives: Claim – Brain and Serious Injury Medical Negligence

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

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