Sally Ann Digby died on the 31st May 2014 (aged 53) when she swallowed a latex glove whilst a resident at the Phoenix Park Care Village in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire.
Sally had suffered with dementia for a number of years and therefore was transferred to the Phoenix Park Care Home in order for specialist care to be provided to her. She was unable to look after herself and required supervision and assistance from the carers at the Residential home. Continue reading this article
Our Client, a 68 year old man from Canterbury, Kent, underwent a right total hip replacement under the care of the East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust on 28.07.11. Shortly after discharge, on 08.08.11, our client’s hip replacement dislocated whilst at home.Continue reading this article
Our client, a 46 year old man from Ramsgate, Kent, was under the care of the London Clinic for a bulging disc in his lumbar spine and was awaiting a planned surgical discectomy and laminectomy operation with his surgeon.Continue reading this article
Our client, a 68 year old woman from Whitstable, Kent, lost her husband in October 2012 (he was then aged 69) as a consequence of the negligence of an out-of-hours GP.
The deceased had attended on the out-of-hours GP at the Kent & Canterbury Hospital complaining of right sided pain which was radiating to his abdomen, and vomiting. The GP undertook no proper examination of the abdomen, failed to take or record his blood pressure or temperature, and diagnosed a back strain. The deceased therefore went home and remained in pain, before calling an ambulance 3 days later.Continue reading this article
Our client, a 50 year old woman from Deal, Kent, was caused an injury to her bladder during a laparoscopic hysterectomy at the QEQM Hospital in Margate.
Although an injury to the bladder during such surgery is not of itself negligent, the surgeon failed to identify that she had caused he injury during the operation.Continue reading this article
We previously reported the circumstances of this matter, following a formal admission of liability by the Defendant (the NHS Commissioning Board, on behalf of her GP surgery, which was an NHS managed practice), in May 2013.Continue reading this article
Our client Mr B, 73 years old, from Purley, Surrey sustained minor cuts and bruises as well as anxiety and depression as a result of falling whilst admitted to Frenchay Hospital in Bristol on 20.03.11.Continue reading this article
Our client, Mrs C, aged 65 from Ashford was admitted to the William Harvey Hospital with abdominal pains and vomiting at Christmas 2011.
The A&E Department of William Harvey Hospital requested an urgent CT scan of the abdomen but this was not actioned. Instead, Mrs C was misdiagnosed with constipation and treated incorrectly for this.Continue reading this article
Our client, Kate Harvey, aged 36, underwent surgery involving the removal of ovarian cysts at Southlands Hospital, Shoreham – by – sea, West Sussex on 1st October 2012.Continue reading this article
Mr F, a 53 year old man, from Ashford, Kent, collapsed at his home in March 2007. He found himself lying on the floor with an agonising pain at the back of his head and neck, radiating to his forehead. The cause was a rupture of an aneurysm (ACA) resulting in a small sub-arachnoid haemorrhage (SAH). Mr F presented at Kent and Canterbury’s A&E where he underwent neurological examinations and X rays. He was admitted to a ward where further investigations were planned to exclude SAH as the cause of the symptoms. The results of these subsequent investigations were suggestive of SAH in the posterior sulci.Continue reading this article