Here is everything you need to know about making a medical negligence claim. It may seem daunting to make a medical negligence claim, but with the right team in your corner, you can make a successful one. Medical negligence is when the medical professional treating you gives you medical treatment below a standard any other [...]
December 1st to the 7th, 2024, is Crohn’s and Colitis Awareness Week in the UK. Many people suffer from Crohn’s Disease and Colitis, and raising awareness always helps with diagnosis and treatment. Living with Crohn’s Disease and Colitis can be very difficult. Sufferers can experience embarrassment in public, and often, people with Crohn’s and [...]
Runciman v University Hospital Southampton NHS Trust [2024] EWHC 1800 (KB) (12 July 2024) Intracranial vascular occlusion may be arterial or venous; the two are pathologically and anatomically distinct. The treatments are different. The clinical presentations of the two conditions may be similar; the initial radiological investigation may not be diagnostically helpful. This case [...]
LN v Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust [2024] EWHC 1478 (KB) (18 June 2024)This case involved a claim for Hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) and whether this was caused by the mistakes to which the defendant admitted to.The three main questions the judge had to consider were:Did the claimant suffer from HIEIf he did, was [...]
Woods v Doncaster And Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust [2024] EWHC 1432 (KB) (11 June 2024) This birth injury case relates to a claim that there was an alleged delay in delivery resulting in a permanent injury to the claimant. The negligence was alleged to have taken place between 28 Sept 1998 and [...]
These cases concerned the recovery of damages by relatives from witnessing the death or injury of a patient arising out of clinical negligence. The recovery of damages by one person (secondary victim) from witnessing a wrongful injury to another (primary victim) is established in common law; it arose from negligence involving a violent accident. It [...]
In November 2018 C aged 43 contracted herpes simplex encephalitis. On Tuesday 27 November 2018 he saw his GP, D. On Friday 30 November 2018 C was admitted to hospital as an emergency. He was assessed. Acyclovir was commenced. C was very seriously ill. C had suffered a significant brain injury. He was unable [...]
