Category Archives: Medical Negligence

£150,000 for Out Of Hours Failure to Diagnose a Brain Haemorrhage

£150,000 for Out Of Hours Failure to Diagnose a Brain Haemorrhage

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

£400,000 for surgeon’s failure to remove metal work in hip

£400,000 for surgeon’s failure to remove metal work in hip

Our client, Mrs D, from Wiltshire suffered a hip fracture in 2002. Subsequently she had problems during her second pregnancy and decided to have the metal work removed before she had more children. In order to expedite the surgery, the treating surgeon at Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust referred Mrs D to a locum orthopaedic surgeon, Mr Sampalli, who performed surgery in March 2011 with only partial success. Continue reading this article

£65,000 for widow whose late husband died shortly after being discharged from hospital

£65,000 for widow whose late husband died shortly after being discharged from hospital

Our client, Mrs J, came to us after her husband died in November 2010 shortly after being discharged from Eastbourne District General Hospital.  He had gone to hospital after a bad fall and the imaging identified compression fractures at T6 and T11 which the doctors thought were old.  There was also internal bleeding and regrettably our client’s husband was discharged from hospital with an undiagnosed intra-thoracic haemorrhage and he subsequently died at home.Continue reading this article