Pages On: NHS Claims
The NHS is an excellent organisation that saves so many lives. Having such a resource allows the people of the UK to not constantly fret about choosing between their finances and their health. However, that does mean the NHS is under routine strain from the vast quantities of patients, as well as mismanagement from higher up. Patients can often wait weeks before seeing a GP, and months, sometimes even years, for referrals. In the event of serious illness, this can be too late to combat. There are also the chances of surgical mistakes, misdiagnosis, birth injury and a myriad of other types of medical negligence. If the NHS has failed in its duty of care to you, and you have suffered as a result, you may be entitled to claim compensation.
12-month old’s life could have been saved
Posted: 30 January 2016
Posted in: Medical Negligence, NHS Claims, Wrongful & Accidental Death
An NHS England report has stated that the life of 12-month-old William Mead from Cornwall could have been saved if he had received better medical care. Both GPs and call handlers from NHS 111 failed to recognise that he was suffering from sepsis (blood poisoning) following a chest infection. This has raised doubts about the efficacy of England’s out-of-hours helpline which uses advisors, who are not medically trained, inputting information to a computer system. It states that if a medic had taken the emergency call it is possible that the…
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Government “chasing headlines” on NHS
Posted: 16 August 2015
Posted in: Medical Negligence, NHS Claims
According to the British Medical Association, the government has been “chasing headlines” on the NHS instead of actually tackling the real issues. The doctors’ union published a review of the government’s first 100 days in office, suggesting that ministers chose to alienate doctors instead of actually facing any of the NHS’s problems head-on. The review was released after Jeremy Hunt announced plans for seven-day working. The review highlighted a number of headline-grabbing announcements made by ministers in their first 100 days in office, leaving several questions unanswered. These include talks…
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Unrequested DNR notice caused death
Posted: 19 March 2015
Posted in: Medical Negligence, NHS Claims, Wrongful & Accidental Death
An inquest has heard that NHS staff “played God” when they put a ‘Do Not Resuscitate’ (DNR) notice on an elderly man before he died, despite the fact that he did not request one. 66-year-old great grandfather Michael Richardson, from Great Yarmouth, died in James Paget University Hospital, Gorleston, in 2013. He had been diagnosed with a lung condition and was only given an estimated one year to live. His widow, 65-year-old Janet Richardson, accused NHS staff of playing God after she discovered that they had placed a DNR notice…
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‘Devastating’ misdiagnosis
Posted: 19 October 2014
Posted in: Medical Negligence, NHS Claims
A man who was misdiagnosed with dementia has received an apology from an NHS trust after tests showed him to be clear of the condition three years after diagnosis. 71-year-old Leighton Peacock was given a scan in 2011, which showed him to be suffering with dementia. However, over the years following the diagnosis, Mr Peacock did not deteriorate in the way doctors expected him to. The clinical director for dementia at Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, Dr Vicky Brown, said she was deeply apologetic for the distress caused by the…
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Ambulance service blamed for death
Posted: 19 September 2014
Posted in: Medical Negligence, NHS Claims, Wrongful & Accidental Death
Ambulance “cutbacks” have been blamed for the death of 73-year-old grandmother Sonia Powell. Mrs Powell was forced to wait in an hour-long ambulance queue despite having suffered a suspected heart attack. She died in the ambulance queue outside Morriston Hospital on Wednesday afternoon. Mrs Powell’s family has blamed NHS cutbacks for her death. Her granddaughter, Kim Thompson, said that her grandmother had originally been admitted to Neath Port Talbot Hospital on Monday, but was being transferred to the cardiac unit at Morriston Hospital after having, what was believed to be,…
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