A man who was awarded a £13,500 compensation settlement in a medical negligence claim has thanked Hudgell Solicitors for successfully taking on his case after another law firm told him he wouldn’t be successful. The man, 33, had suffered a fracture to bones in the middle of his right foot in an accident but was […]
LloydsPharmacy has agreed a damages settlement with a woman who ended up taking four times more than the safe amount of blood pressure tablets after being given the medication in error. The woman had been taking 20ml of Amitriptyline a day for depression and had collected her regular prescription from the pharmacy, in Doncaster Gate, […]
A hospital trust has admitted causing a 12-month delay in diagnosing a patient’s liver cancer and agreed an out-of-court damages settlement with his widow. The patient, from Hampshire, was under the care of Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust for liver disease but was not recalled for vital blood tests and scans as he should have […]
A woman who lived for two years with a cancer diagnosis – undergoing nine cycles of treatment and requiring egg preservation due to treatment posing a risk to her fertility – was then told she’d been wrongly diagnosed and had never had cancer at all. Megan Royle says she was left in ‘complete shock’ when […]
A judge has ruled in favour of a terminally ill cancer patient – and awarded her damages – in a case against a hospital Trust which took the matter to a trial despite having already admitted its treatment had been negligent. Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust admitted its failure to recall Denise Fallon for […]
A Hospital Trust has apologised and agreed an out of court compensation settlement with a patient after a surgical swab was left in her following an operation to remove cancer. It caused the 61-year-old patient to need further surgery, leading to her having to postpone her next cycle of chemotherapy treatment. It was after undergoing […]
An NHS Trust is challenging a legal case brought against it by a patient alleging delayed diagnosis of terminal lung cancer – despite admitting its negligence caused her to miss reviews and scans. It means Denise Fallon, 68, of Hull, who is already two years beyond her life expectancy due to her illness, will have […]
A pregnant woman who developed sepsis and needed admitting to intensive care after a hospital’s surgical error has been awarded damages. The woman was 17 weeks pregnant when she attended the Emergency Department at Colchester Hospital in August 2019, suffering from severe abdominal pains. She was diagnosed with appendicitis and underwent surgery to remove her […]
A Hospital Trust has agreed an £80,000 damages medical negligence settlement with a patient who lost almost all vision in his right eye after errors led to him missing 11 months of vital treatment to prevent glaucoma. The 83-year-old man had been reviewed by eye specialists when treated in Hull Royal Infirmary following a fall […]
A Yorkshire hospital trust has admitted being responsible for the death of a patient by failing to operate on her to remove a blockage in her bowel. The patient, of West Yorkshire, was first referred to Pontefract Hospital by her GP in March 2016, after suffering persistent abdominal pains and feeling sick after eating. Over […]
A hospital patient has been awarded £80,000 compensation after surgeons accidently cut through a bile duct when removing gallstones. The medical negligence error at Scunthorpe General Hospital caused a leak which left her needing further emergency surgery in Leeds to repair the damage and to fit a stent to drain fluids. It meant a procedure […]
A care worker who attended an NHS Urgent Treatment Centre in Hull complaining of an infection in his finger had to have it amputated five days later due to a lack of care. A successful medical negligence case was brought against City Healthcare Partnership which, in an out of court settlement, admitted liability and a […]
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