Our client, a man in his late 50’s from the South East, was a patient at the Defendant’s dental practice for a number of years, but despite attending regularly and having been found to have a number of warning signs over the years (gingivitis, minor tooth mobility, and some bone loss on x-ray), he was not diagnosed with chronic adult periodontitis or given any treatment for that condition, until he complained of significantly loose teeth in July 2011.Continue reading this article
Our client, a 37 year old man from Thanet, suffered a scaphoid fracture whilst playing football in June 2010. He attended on his GP a week later with a painful hand and wrist, but the GP’s examination was not detailed and he failed to diagnose (or even consider the diagnosis of) a scaphoid fracture. Our client was not referred for an x-ray.Continue reading this article
Our client, a retired man from Bromley, and keen tennis enthusiast, underwent a right sided Birmingham Hip Resurfacing procedure, on a private basis, in South London, on 31.03.09.Continue reading this article
Mr H was 77 years of age when he died at the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton in December 2011.
Over the final years of his life, he suffered with Parkinson’s Disease which made him vulnerable, physically, although he remained mentally aware and fully engaged with his family to whom he was a much loved husband, father and grandfather.Continue reading this article
Our client, a child from Kent, suffered an Erb’s palsy injury (i.e. an injury to the nerves in his neck) during his birth.Continue reading this article
Mr M, a 17 year old young man, attended the A&E department at Darenth Valley Hospital, Dartford, Kent, in the early hours of 21st January 2013 complaining of severe testicular pain.Continue reading this article
Mr L, a 37 year old man from Gillingham, suffered a significant supracondylar fracture in his elbow in April 2011 following an accident whilst playing football.
He was taken to Medway Maritime Hospital, Kent, by ambulance and his fracture was identified. He was told that he would require open reduction internal fixation surgery, which would be carried out following a CT scan.Continue reading this article
We reported previously (17.12.13:- Breast cancer test result blunder – case settles) on the South London Healthcare NHS Trust admitting liability, in this breast cancer case, for the serious mistakes that took placed at Farnborough Hospital in South London.Continue reading this article
We represent the family of Simon Willson, who died on 23.01.10, at the Kent & Canterbury Hospital, aged just 34, when he took his own life by hanging himself with his own belt, within a disabled toilet, following admission to hospital having taken an overdose.Continue reading this article
Article by James Gillespie Published: 30.03.2014.
The General Medical Council has been accused of allowing a disgraced surgeon who botched a string of operations to “get away with it” after he was permitted to remove his name voluntarily from the medical register.Continue reading this article