£25,000 recovered for undiagnosed scaphoid fracture.

£25,000 recovered for undiagnosed scaphoid fracture.

Our client, a 37 year old man from Thanet, suffered a scaphoid fracture whilst playing football in June 2010. He attended on his GP a week later with a painful hand and wrist, but the GP’s examination was not detailed and he failed to diagnose (or even consider the diagnosis of) a scaphoid fracture. Our client was not referred for an x-ray.Continue reading this article

£56,200 recovered for foot drop

£56,200 recovered for foot drop

Our client, a 69 year old man, from Hythe in Kent, underwent a left total hip replacement (THR) at the William Harvey Hospital, Ashford, Kent.

Unfortunately, during that surgery, an injury was caused to his sciatic nerve which resulted in a foot drop and which had a significant impact on his day to day activities and his hobbies of cycling and ballroom dancing.Continue reading this article

NHS Private Treatment Case settles

NHS Private Treatment Case settles

Our client, Mrs S, suffered from increasingly painful and problematic bunions and was referred to the QEQM for day surgery over the summer of 2008.

In the August of that year she was offered an early operation at the Spencer Wing, a private wing at the QEQM, as part of an NHS waiting list reduction initiative, and she proceeded to surgery there in October 2008. The surgery failed despite revision operations in February 2010 and May 2011. Mrs S was left with constant severe pain in both feet.Continue reading this article

Hospital Pays Out for Using Wrong Hip Prosthesis

Hospital Pays Out for Using Wrong Hip Prosthesis

We today settled a case on behalf of our client, a lady from East Kent, who underwent a right total hip replacement over the Summer of 2011 at the Kent and Canterbury Hospital.

The operation seemed to have taken place satisfactorily, and our client was discharged homed, with crutches, within two days of having had the procedure performed.Continue reading this article