Our Client, a 34 year old woman from Maidstone, Kent, was admitted to Tunbridge Wells Hospital on the 24th February 2012 with suspected appendicitis.
There was a delay in her being admitted to the surgical ward of around 17 hours. As a result she was left on a trolley waiting to be taken to theatre in the Accident & Emergency Department over night. Continue reading this article
Our client, a 62 year old woman from Hove, East Sussex, suffered a sciatic nerve injury during a total hip replacement (THR) performed by orthopaedic surgeon Mr Pattison on 07.03.11.Continue reading this article
Our client, a young woman from Tonbridge, Kent, was diagnosed in 2010 with the BRCA1 gene and elected to have a bilateral mastectomy at Guy’s Hospital under the care of Breast Surgeon, Mr Doeuk. Breast implants were inserted in October 2010. Continue reading this article
Article by James Gillespie Published: 06.03.16
Three children have been awarded substantial damages after the killing of their mother by their mentally ill father, who had been turned away from hospital by a nurse and told to go home and “tidy” up. The youngest child, who was three at the time, witnessed her mother being stabbed. The eldest boy tried to save her.Continue reading this article
Our client, a woman from Canterbury, Kent, lost her husband in May 2011 after he was diagnosed with renal cancer.
During the diagnostic process the deceased was given conflicting advice as to whether he had cancer. Initially he was advised that he probably had cancer. He was then informed that the results of his scan had no pathological significance. Continue reading this article
Our client, an 80 year old man from Herne Bay, Kent, was found to have a small mass on his lung in January 2007. As he required treatment for another matter first, the decision was made to organise a follow up for the lung mass after that treatment had taken place.Continue reading this article
Our client, Mrs W, an elderly 92 year old woman, from Sittingbourne, Kent, sustained a left hip fracture as a result of falling whilst an inpatient at Medway Maritime Hospital.
A claim was brought against Medway NHS Foundation Trust on the basis that despite being proven to be very unsteady on her feet no preventative measures were taken to stop her from falling, she was allowed to leave her bed unsupervised and no care plan was put in place before the fall.Continue reading this article
Our client, a woman from Aylesford, Kent, lost her husband in December 2012 (aged 66).
In October 2012 the deceased began to experience chest pain and was taken to Maidstone Hospital. There he was assessed and then discharged home with a prescription for Amoxicillin and no follow-up. Two months later he suffered a myocardial infarction whilst in bed next to his wife. His children attempted to resuscitate him, however this was unsuccessful and he was later pronounced dead. A post mortem confirmed the cause of death to be ischaemic heart disease.Continue reading this article
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, Miss K, a 34 year old woman from Faversham, Kent, suffered multiple seizures following the issuing of an incorrect prescription by her GP, whilst she was pregnant.Continue reading this article