Mr M, a 17 year old young man, attended the A&E department at Darenth Valley Hospital, Dartford, Kent, in the early hours of 21st January 2013 complaining of severe testicular pain.Continue reading this article
Mr L, a 37 year old man from Gillingham, suffered a significant supracondylar fracture in his elbow in April 2011 following an accident whilst playing football.
He was taken to Medway Maritime Hospital, Kent, by ambulance and his fracture was identified. He was told that he would require open reduction internal fixation surgery, which would be carried out following a CT scan.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 represent the family of Simon Willson, who died on 23.01.10, at the Kent & Canterbury Hospital, aged just 34, when he took his own life by hanging himself with his own belt, within a disabled toilet, following admission to hospital having taken an overdose.Continue reading this article
Article by James Gillespie Published: 30.03.2014.
The General Medical Council has been accused of allowing a disgraced surgeon who botched a string of operations to “get away with it” after he was permitted to remove his name voluntarily from the medical register.Continue reading this article
Sherry Inkin, mother of Lisa Inkin, who died in April last year aged just 21, when she took her own life by jumping in front of a Tube train, has appeared on Radio Kent this afternoon, alongside Nick Fairweather (who represents Sherry) talking about the factors that she believes caused her daughter’s death.
Lisa suffered with chronic anorexia.Continue reading this article
Article by James Gillespie Published: 09 March 2014.
The mother of a vulnerable anorexia sufferer sent to a private hospital because no NHS beds were available near her home has described the torment of thinking she had missed a chance to save her daughter from taking her life.
Lisa Inkin, 21, died last April when she jumped in front of a Tube train at 10.28am at Victoria station in central London. She had texted a suicide note to her mother, Sherry, 11 minutes earlier but it did not arrive until 10.40am, by which time Lisa was dead.
Sherry, 52, has since seen CCTV images of Lisa on the platform. “She looks focussed, just staring straight ahead of her, just totally switched off,” she said.Continue reading this article
We are receiving instructions from a number of clients who are patients of the College Practice in Maidstone, a GP Surgery.
Our clients are younger women, in their 20s and 30s who were notified, as of December last year, that their confidential medical records had been unlawfully accessed by a Finance Manager at the practice.Continue reading this article
Ms M, a 23 year old lady at the time of the negligence, gave birth to her second child at the Princess Royal Hospital, Haywards Heath, Sussex in February 2010.
She suffered a significant tear to her labia but this was misdiagnosed as merely a “graze” and therefore was not sutured.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