Medical negligence Claim

It has taken six years, but Kate Pierce, from Wrexham, is a step closer to receiving compensation for a misdiagnosis which left her severely brain damaged. The parents of Kate Pierce, now aged six, who was left severely brain damaged due to medical negligence, have won their claim against a Hospital board. Kate was just nine months old in 2006 when she developed a life-threatening infection which was wrongly diagnosed as viral tonsillitis when she was taken to Wrexham Maelor Hospital. A ju....

A couple have been awarded a five-figure medical negligence payout after surgeons forgot to remove a breathing tube which was inserted into their new born baby son. When Owen Thomas was born in February 2007, one of his shoulders became stuck during his birth, and he wasn’t breathing. As a result surgeons inserted a breathing tube to save his life. A week later, the baby coughed up the tube which had been left inside him following the oversight by hospital staff. The couple won their c....

Margaret Peabody has won over £100,000 in compensation following a routine hip operation that went wrong and left her permanently disabled. Mrs Peabody, 51, was suffering from painful osteoarthritis and, in 2008, underwent an operation at the St Cross Hospital in Rugby to resurface her hip. She was told beforehand that it was a simple procedure which the surgeon had performed thousands of times before. After the operation, the surgeon admitted that he had accidentally cut through her n....

The Telegraph has recently reported how 8000 patients have been killed, in the last 13 years, due to medical blunders by NHS medical professionals. It was reported that the number of NHS claims have risen by 300% in recent years with figures of 223 deaths in 1997-1998 up by an astonishing 903 in 2009-2010. Experts are suggesting that the number of patients who have died as a result of medical negligence in the NHS is actually higher than 8000 but many families will not have pursued legal action.....

Mr Hou Chun Lin is making a claim against Peterborough NHS Trust after medical blunders led to his daughter having to have both legs amputated. Mr Lin, who speaks very little English, says that he pleaded with a doctor to admit his baby daughter Miki Lin Gao to hospital in February 2006 but was told to go home and give her paracetemol. Mr Lin took his 10 month old daughter to see the family GP on February 16th 2006 because she was suffering from a cough and a cold. Over the next week her conditi....

Robbie Crane from Hertfordshire has been awarded medical negligence compensation totalling £5 million after surgery performed shortly after his birth left him brain damaged. The 12 year old boy underwent heart surgery at Middlesex’s Harefield Hospital after it was discovered that he had a serious heart defect. The operation was successful but the boy alleged that medical negligence occurred during the after-operation ventilation stage. It was claimed that the young boy’s br....

Steve Edwards, 51, from Weston-Super-Mare, North Somerset has received a six-figure sum in compensation after the wrong side of his heart was removed during surgery. In 2008, Mr Edwards was operated on at the Bristol Royal Infirmary (BRI) for an irregular heartbeat. During the operation a piece of equipment slipped causing the wrong side of his heart to be burned away. Mr Edwards, a practice manager at St George's and Worle GP surgeries, was awarded the undisclosed sum after the third attemp....

A newly-qualified Somerset based dentist, Mr Justin George, was suspended after he extracted a woman’s healthy tooth in error. Mrs Kim Green, 44, attended her local dental practice on the 28th May, with acute pain caused by a decayed and infected tooth. Her dentist, Mr George took an x-ray but relied on Mrs Green to point to the tooth during the extraction. A couple of hours following the extraction Mrs Green returned to the dental practice as she realised her healthy tooth had been re....

The family of Mrs Barbara Wilson who died after she was prescribed excessive levels of bipolar drug Lithium has received compensation from her GP practice. Mrs Wilson 67, of Woodland Care Centre, Bishop Auckland died in November 2009. She died from bronchial pneumonia. An inquest into her death found the pneumonia was caused by accidental lithium overdose. According to the National Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE) patients on the medication should have a blood test every three months to a....

A personal injury lawyer has called for lessons to be learned after a woman was forced to cancel the trip of a lifetime to Las Vegas when a simple cosmetic treatment went wrong leaving her with infected eyes so badly swollen that she could not see. Anne-Marie Colgan was left in agony after a trip to the Vanity K Beauty Salon in Uddingston. Her eyelash tint and eyelash extension on Friday 17th September 2010 went seriously wrong. The day after the botched treatment her eyebrows became itchy, ....

A man who was left almost blind after a hospital failed to diagnose a brain tumour has received £180,000 in compensation. A North West NHS Foundation Trust admitted liability after missing the benign tumour in a CT scan in December 2004 and informing the man that his scan was completely clear. It was a follow up MRI scan four years later that confirmed he had a large tumour in the membrane surrounding the brain; the tumour was compressing his optic nerve, causing his eyesight to deteri....

A family whose young son died in 1997 after receiving “incorrect treatment” from the boy’s doctor has received compensation and an apology from a Leicester hospital. Three-year-old Ryan Pitcher, who was being treated for epilepsy, died after being given the wrong medication by Dr Andrew Holton, who was based at the hospital. Initial investigations failed to find a link between Dr Holton’s actions and Ryan’s death. However, Ryan’s parents, Simon and Diane P....

Furness General Hospital in Barrow, Cumbria is being investigated by the police for the deaths of babies at the NHS hospital. The unprecedented step follows the death of Joshua Titcombe who died just nine days after his birth at Furness Hospital in October 2008. Joshua died from a common lung infection after staff failed to notice the tell-tale signs. Ian Smith the Coroner stated that staff had not paid attention to the baby’s parents and had failed to record that the baby’s cond....

Leo Whiten, 7, suffered serious brain injury when he was delivered at St. George’s hospital in London in June 2004. He claimed compensation against the hospital NHS Trust for injury caused by medical negligence and losses he sustained because of the poor management of his mother’s labour and his birth. St. George’s hospital admitted liability and accepted that due to their doctors’ negligence, Leo suffered severe brain damage and financial loss. Mrs Justice Swift in asses....

Claims for medical negligence compensation made by families over maternity unit deaths have gone up to a quarter in a year. In London alone, poor stan dards of maternity care cost the NHS £41 million a year in compensation claims including negligence claims relating to children who are left with a brain damage condition called cerebral palsy. A third of all maternity care negligent claims made against London maternity units last year involved Barking, Havering and Redbridge University H....