8th July 2021 – Our client, a 75-year-old man from Kent, suffered a fractured left hip in a non-negligent fall and was taken to the QEQM Hospital in Margate on 30.11.2017.Continue reading this article
£20,000 recovered for negligent catheterisation
Category Archives: Claim – Surgical errors Medical Negligence
£21,000 for Anaesthetic Awareness during Surgery
31st March 2021 – Our client Mrs P from Ashford, Kent underwent a laparoscopic bilateral ureterolysis and excision of endometriosis at the Spencer Wing at William Harvey Hospital on 23.01.2019.Continue reading this article
£100,000 after Fatal Failure to Operate on Bowel Obstruction
9th September 2020 – Our Client Mr S from Kent lost his wife in September 2016 whilst she was under the care of East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust.
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£167,500 for Substandard Orthopaedic Surgery to Remove Exostoses
8th Nov 2018 – Our Client, Ms S, from Ashford, Kent came to see us following surgery to remove exostoses (a protuberance of bone) in her right leg in September 2013.Continue reading this article
£280,000 recovered for failure to operate promptly
28th Sept 2018 – Our client, a 46-year-old woman from Ashford, Kent, experienced the sudden onset of severe abdominal pain and sickness in the early hours of 31.08.03 and was taken to hospital by ambulance. Following some tests, she was diagnosed with constipation and a urinary tract infection and discharged home.Continue reading this article
£17,000 recovered in retained placenta case
1st Aug 2018 – Our client, Ms M from Dover, brought a claim against East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust after retained products of conception were missed after she gave birth to her first child in May 2015.Continue reading this article
£45,000 recovered for rectal injury during surgery
Our client, a 50 year old woman from near Ashford, Kent, underwent gynaecological surgery to repair prolapses to the anterior wall and posterior wall of the vagina, as well as to address uterine descent under the care of gynaecologist Mr Connell at Maidstone Hospital on 06.02.15.Continue reading this article
£250,000 recovered for brachial plexus injury
Our client, a 51 year old man from Sandwich, Kent, underwent a first rib resection for a suspected thoracic outlet syndrome under the care of Mr Rix and Mr Insall at the Kent & Canterbury Hospital on 25.11.14.Continue reading this article
Million pound settlement for failure to perform laser eye surgery
Our client, a 51 year old man from near Maidstone, Kent, had already lost the sight in his right eye some years earlier when he began experiencing a reduction in vision in his left eye in June 2011.Continue reading this article
£35,000 recovered for temporary colostomy
Our client, a 55 year old woman from Folkestone, Kent, suffered a diathermy injury to her small bowel during the course of a laparoscopic appendectomy, in May 2015, at the William Harvey Hospital in Ashford (a hospital managed by the East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust (“EKH”)).Continue reading this article