We are pleased to announce that we have today settled, at a round table meeting, a GP negligence matter in the sum of £100,000.
Our client, Mr C, from Gillingham, presented with hypertension during 2006 and early 2007. There was a failure to refer him to a Nephrologist (kidney specialist), and an ongoing failure to re-check his renal function throughout 2007 and 2008.Continue reading this article
Our client, a 25 year old man at the time, suffered a fractured right fibula whilst on holiday in Spain. Upon arriving back in the UK a couple of days later he attended at the Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Hospital, and two weeks later underwent an operation to fix the fracture.Continue reading this article
We today settled a case on behalf of our client, a lady from East Kent, who underwent a right total hip replacement over the Summer of 2011 at the Kent and Canterbury Hospital.
The operation seemed to have taken place satisfactorily, and our client was discharged homed, with crutches, within two days of having had the procedure performed.Continue reading this article
Ms G from London, 37 years old at the time of the incident, gave birth to her second child at the Royal Berkshire Hospital on 17 October 2009.
She returned home with her newborn baby but continued to bleed very heavily.Continue reading this article
Our client, Ms K, a 28 year old lady from Ramsgate, underwent a cholecystectomy (removal of the gall bladder by laparoscopic – key hole – surgery) at the QEQM Hospital in September 2007, following a diagnosis of gall stones.
During the operation, her common bile duct was mistaken for her cystic duct and was divided.Continue reading this article
Ms C, a 43 year old lady from West Sussex, was pregnant with twins and induced at Worthing Hospital in May 2010.
Her labour failed to progress so it was decided that she would need a Caesarean section.
Before and during the C-section procedure, Ms C was given insufficient pain relief, which meant that she could feel everything.Continue reading this article
Within previous Inside Story features we have highlighted the case of Debbie Westwick, a Nurse from Canterbury, who suffered substandard treatment at the Kent and Canterbury Hospital under the auspices of the Kent Oncology Centre. Continue reading this article
An NHS trust has paid out £651,000 to 15 former patients of a Kent surgeon, it has been revealed.
East Kent Hospitals NHS Trust made the out of court settlements, to people treated by Dr David Jackson, from 2002 – five years before he was sacked.Continue reading this article
For Debbie Westwick, the future is bleak. “I’m dying,” she says. Before her cancer kills her, however, she has one last battle to fight.
The 49-year-old nurse is campaigning against secrecy in the medical profession that allows doctors under sanctions by the General Medical Council or suspected of serious failings to continue working without their patients knowing of their alleged faults.Continue reading this article
In July 2006, Debbie Westwick, a 43 year old nurse, was diagnosed with cancer of her left breast. She was treated at the Kent & Canterbury Hospital, where she worked, by oncologist Howard Smedley and surgeon David Jackson. Unbeknown to her, Dr Smedley was subject to ‘supervision undertakings’ imposed by the GMC for reasons that they refuse to reveal. Mr Jackson was suspended in the middle of her treatment, subsequently sacked and referred to the GMC.Continue reading this article