Our client, a 55 year old woman from Westgate-on-Sea, Kent, underwent a laparoscopic cholecystectomy at the Kent & Canterbury Hospital, on 11.03.13.Continue reading this article
Our client, a 53 year old woman from Ashford, Kent, suffered injury to the bowel mesentery during an operation for hysterectomy and pelvic floor repair at the Kings College Hospital (“KCH”) in London, in May 2013.Continue reading this article
There has been a great deal of media interest in the tragic case of Peter Franklin who took his own life in August 2013 having failed to access help from the local Mental Health Trust and at Maidstone Hospital A&E Department numerous times on the day of his death.Continue reading this article
A deeply depressed pensioner killed himself after being turned away by NHS medics SEVEN TIMES that day.Continue reading this article
Peter Franklin, aged 67, died on 19th August 2013, when he took his own life by jumping from a motorway bridge on the M20, close to Maidstone Hospital.Continue reading this article
Article by James Gillespie Published: 13.08.2017
A mentally ill man killed himself by jumping from a motorway bridge after he was sent home from an A&E department five times on the day he died.Continue reading this article
Our client, Ms M, from Brighton, now aged 30, suffered severe headache symptoms late one afternoon in June 2010. She contacted the Brighton Out Of Hours service and was advised to attend the A&E department at the Royal Sussex County Hospital for assessment by an Out Of Hours GP. She was seen there later that evening. Her symptoms included the sudden onset of a ‘thunder clap’ headache with nausea, vomiting and neck pain, all quite different from the migraines that she had suffered with previously.Continue reading this article
In April 2015, at the Luton and Dunstable University Hospital, the Claimant delivered a baby girl. The placenta was inspected post delivery and the midwife queried whether it was complete; a doctor then noted that the placenta was complete and the Claimant was discharged home.Continue reading this article
Our client, Mrs D, from Wiltshire suffered a hip fracture in 2002. Subsequently she had problems during her second pregnancy and decided to have the metal work removed before she had more children. In order to expedite the surgery, the treating surgeon at Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust referred Mrs D to a locum orthopaedic surgeon, Mr Sampalli, who performed surgery in March 2011 with only partial success. Continue reading this article
Our client, a 71 year old woman from Ramsgate, Kent, was widowed as a result of failings during the care of her husband (“H”) by the East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust (“EKH”).Continue reading this article