Types of Claim | Fairweather Solicitors LLP

NHS Private Treatment Case settles

Our client, Mrs S, suffered from increasingly painful and problematic bunions and was referred to the QEQM for day surgery over the summer of 2008.

In the August of that year she was offered an early operation at the Spencer Wing, a private wing at the QEQM, as part of an NHS waiting list reduction initiative, and she proceeded to surgery there in October 2008. The surgery failed despite revision operations in February 2010 and May 2011. Mrs S was left with constant severe pain in both feet.Continue reading this article

Recent Changes to Child Maintenance

The Child Maintenance Service will shortly take over dealing with child maintenance claims. Initially this will be for families where there are more than 4 children but it will eventually roll out to all families and the current Child Support Agency will close, although this is not likely to be for sometime until all claims are under the new system.Continue reading this article

Liability admitted for delayed bowel investigations

Our client, a 20 year old woman when these events took place, attended at her GP surgery complaining of an altered bowel habit, abdominal pain, and weight loss from February 2010 onwards.

She was initially diagnosed with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and was given medication.Continue reading this article

£20,000 recovered for hip replacement failure

Our client, a 59 year old woman at the time, underwent a right total hip replacement under the care of Mr Hammer at the Medway Maritime Hospital on 06.05.08.

Following the operation she had problems including a leg length discrepancy and pain in the hip. She had a limp and required a shoe raise.Continue reading this article

£100,000 damages to be paid for failing to act on cancer biopsy

In November 2008, our elderly client, Mr R, from Medway, was diagnosed as suffering with a basal cell carcinoma (“BCC”) on his anterior right ear.

An attempt to excise the lesion by surgery failed in February 2009.

In July that year, a further BCC was found on the left side.Continue reading this article

Liability Admitted For Causing Loss of Spleen

Our client, a 40 year old woman at the time, underwent a hysterectomy at the Medway Maritime Hospital on 26.07.10. She was subsequently discharged home, but returned to hospital on 05.08.10 with increasing pain in her left leg and abdomen.Continue reading this article

£100,000 for GP negligence causing accelerated renal failure

We are pleased to announce that we have today settled, at a round table meeting, a GP negligence matter in the sum of £100,000.

Our client, Mr C, from Gillingham, presented with hypertension during 2006 and early 2007. There was a failure to refer him to a Nephrologist (kidney specialist), and an ongoing failure to re-check his renal function throughout 2007 and 2008.Continue reading this article

£80,000 recovered for failure to properly treat leg fracture.

$£80,000 recovered for failure to properly treat leg fracture.$

Our client, a 25 year old man at the time, suffered a fractured right fibula whilst on holiday in Spain. Upon arriving back in the UK a couple of days later he attended at the Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Hospital, and two weeks later underwent an operation to fix the fracture.Continue reading this article

Hospital Pays Out for Using Wrong Hip Prosthesis

We today settled a case on behalf of our client, a lady from East Kent, who underwent a right total hip replacement over the Summer of 2011 at the Kent and Canterbury Hospital.

The operation seemed to have taken place satisfactorily, and our client was discharged homed, with crutches, within two days of having had the procedure performed.Continue reading this article

£10,000 for case involving collapse and post partum haemorrhage due to retained placenta

Ms G from London, 37 years old at the time of the incident, gave birth to her second child at the Royal Berkshire Hospital on 17 October 2009.

She returned home with her newborn baby but continued to bleed very heavily.Continue reading this article