There has been a great deal of media interest in the case of Jacob Stratton who has been left with severe brain damage following out of hours GP negligence.Continue reading this article
Record meningitis pay out – Case Covered by BBC South East
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Record meningitis pay out – the family and Nick Fairweather discuss the case on BBC Radio Kent
There has been a great deal of media interest in the case of Jacob Stratton who has been left with severe brain damage following out of hours GP negligence.
At just 6 weeks of age Jacob, now aged 9, contracted pneumococcal meningitis which went undiagnosed despite his parents contacting out of hours GP practitioners, first by phone then by taking Jacob to a drop in centre.Continue reading this article
Sunday Times – £15m payout over baby’s brain damage
Article by James Gillespie Published: 10.07.2016
A CHILD who was 30 minutes from death following alleged blunders by two out-of-hours GPs has won a £15m settlement after being left severely disabled.Continue reading this article
£18,000 for double vision after removal of polyps
Our client, a man from Canterbury, Kent, had a septoplasty (procedure to straighten his nasal septum) followed by a bilateral FESS (functional endoscopic sinus surgery) operation to remove nasal polyps in May 2013Continue reading this article
Compensation claim for unqualified nurse carrying out cervical smears succeeds
Our client, Ms Heidi Smith, a 42 year old lady from Maidstone, Kent, was asked to attend her GP surgery at Brompton Road, Gillingham, for a routine cervical smear test in December 2008.Continue reading this article
£85,000 for failure to identify risk of DVT
Our Client, a 34 year old woman from Maidstone, Kent, was admitted to Tunbridge Wells Hospital on the 24th February 2012 with suspected appendicitis.
There was a delay in her being admitted to the surgical ward of around 17 hours. As a result she was left on a trolley waiting to be taken to theatre in the Accident & Emergency Department over night. Continue reading this article
£50,000 recovered for sciatic nerve injury
Our client, a 62 year old woman from Hove, East Sussex, suffered a sciatic nerve injury during a total hip replacement (THR) performed by orthopaedic surgeon Mr Pattison on 07.03.11.Continue reading this article
Woman secures £22,500 after failed double mastectomy at London hospital
Our client, a young woman from Tonbridge, Kent, was diagnosed in 2010 with the BRCA1 gene and elected to have a bilateral mastectomy at Guy’s Hospital under the care of Breast Surgeon, Mr Doeuk. Breast implants were inserted in October 2010. Continue reading this article
Sunday Times – NHS pay-out after children see father kill their Mother
Article by James Gillespie Published: 06.03.16
Three children have been awarded substantial damages after the killing of their mother by their mentally ill father, who had been turned away from hospital by a nurse and told to go home and “tidy” up. The youngest child, who was three at the time, witnessed her mother being stabbed. The eldest boy tried to save her.Continue reading this article
Widow wins compensation after hospital delayed diagnosing husband’s terminal cancer
Our client, a woman from Canterbury, Kent, lost her husband in May 2011 after he was diagnosed with renal cancer.
During the diagnostic process the deceased was given conflicting advice as to whether he had cancer. Initially he was advised that he probably had cancer. He was then informed that the results of his scan had no pathological significance. Continue reading this article