Mr H, an 81 year old gentleman at the time of the negligence, was admitted to Darent Valley Hospital in January 2009, following a fall at home, as a result of which he suffered a fracture of the arm.
On admission, he was noted to be suffering from chronic dementia and appeared very confused.Continue reading this article
During 2003, our client, Mr G, from Canterbury, was admitted to the Kent and Canterbury Hospital at Canterbury and diagnosed with pancreatitis. Conservative management was advised.
Late in 2008, he presented with abdominal pain and jaundice. He was seen at the QEQM Hospital in Margate where, early in 2009, endoscopic ultrasound scanning showed gallstones.Continue reading this article
This morning Nick Fairweather joined Teresa Murray, Deputy Labour Leader in Medway, in discussing current proposals to shut the Acute Mental Health Admission Ward at Medway Maritime Hospital.
This follows recent closures of psychiatric inpatient facilities at Thanet and Ashford, this leaving just three admission centres proposed, in Canterbury, Maidstone and Dartford.Continue reading this article
Staff member at Antelope House called Hannah Groves ‘a waste of space’ before she took her own life
A MENTAL health worker described a woman as a “waste of space” in a foul mouthed outburst just hours before the woman took her own life, an inquest heard.
Hannah Groves wanted treatment at a specialist mental health unit in Southampton after saying she wanted to kill herself but she was told there was no space.Continue reading this article
Nick Fairweather was invited to speak, on behalf of the firm, on BBC Radio Kent this morning, concerning alarming figures secured by the station under Freedom of Information Requests made of the Kent and Medway Social Care Partnership Trust.
The data shows a seven fold increase in expenditure on private out of area hospital facilities at an average cost of £8,000 per patient.Continue reading this article
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
Our client, a 20 year old woman when these events took place, attended at her GP surgery complaining of an altered bowel habit, abdominal pain, and weight loss from February 2010 onwards.
She was initially diagnosed with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and was given medication.Continue reading this article
Our client, a 59 year old woman at the time, underwent a right total hip replacement under the care of Mr Hammer at the Medway Maritime Hospital on 06.05.08.
Following the operation she had problems including a leg length discrepancy and pain in the hip. She had a limp and required a shoe raise.Continue reading this article
In November 2008, our elderly client, Mr R, from Medway, was diagnosed as suffering with a basal cell carcinoma (“BCC”) on his anterior right ear.
An attempt to excise the lesion by surgery failed in February 2009.
In July that year, a further BCC was found on the left side.Continue reading this article
Our client, a 40 year old woman at the time, underwent a hysterectomy at the Medway Maritime Hospital on 26.07.10. She was subsequently discharged home, but returned to hospital on 05.08.10 with increasing pain in her left leg and abdomen.Continue reading this article