Our client, a 56 year old woman, from Herne Bay, Kent, underwent a laparoscopic cholecystectomy at the Kent and Canterbury Hospital.
Unfortunately, during the course of the operation, a perforation of the bowel was caused and went unnoticed. Our client was therefore discharged home the same day.Continue reading this article
Our client, a 75 year old woman, was provided with a repeat prescription for a range of medication including Raloxifene. Unfortunately, when this prescription was filled at the Valley Pharmacy (Croydon), Arcoxia was dispensed instead of the Raloxifene.
Our client did not notice the dispensing error and took the Arcoxia tablets for around 7 days, which resulted in her passing black diarrhoea. It was then discovered that our client had been taking the wrong medication and she was seen by her GP who diagnosed an internal bleed caused by the medication.Continue reading this article
Our client, Mr B, was admitted to the intensive therapy unit at the QEQM Hospital, MArgate, Kent suffering from acute pancreatitis.
A guide wire from a femoral central line inserted after admission was left in situ. The line should not have been left in and should have been detected before Mr B was discharged from hospital.Continue reading this article
In our article dated 16.07.2013 we reported that Medway NHS Foundation Trust had been placed into special measures following the Keogh Review.
The Trust was one of 11 hospitals across the country to have this drastic action taken.
Today it has been reported that the Care Quality Commission (CQC) has issued three formal warnings to the Trust, including that it must take immediate action to improve the safety and welfare of women giving birth at Medway Maritime Hospital.Continue reading this article
Following our previous article relating to this claim, dated 27.03.13, in which we confirmed that liability had been admitted by the Medway NHS Foundation Trust, we are now pleased to report that a good settlement has been achieved for our client who lives in Gillingham, Kent.Continue reading this article
We reported, in our last article, on the outcome of the Parliamentary Health Service Ombudsman’s investigation into Debbie Westwick’s breast cancer care and into the handling of her complaints by the East Kent NHS Foundation Trust and Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust.
Within that article we acknowledge the importance of media coverage.Continue reading this article
The Parliamentary Health Service Ombudsman has now produced a report dealing with the complaints of our client, Debbie Westwick, in relation to the breast cancer treatment she received from the Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust and the East Kent Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
The details of Debbie’s case have appeared in previous news articles.Continue reading this article
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
Article by James Gillespie Published: 15 September 2013.
A CORONER has condemned an NHS mental health team, which had dismissed a suicidal 20-year-old student as an “effing waste of space” hours before she took her own life.
For nine days Hannah Groves, who was studying French at Southampton University, made repeated requests to be admitted to the Antelope House mental health unit in the city, warning that she wanted to kill herself.Continue reading this article
A CORONER has delivered a damning assessment of a mental health service’s actions in the days before a young Hampshire woman took her own life.
The risk to the safety of Hannah Groves was “not adequately identified” in the run-up to her tragic death, Southampton Coroner Keith Wiseman said this morning.
The 20-year-old had requested treatment at a mental health unit in Southampton after making several attempts to take her own life in the week before she died.Continue reading this article