The loss of any loved one can be an extremely difficult period at any time, but even more so after the festive period and at the start of a new year. Losing a baby is a heart-breaking experience which is impossible to imagine, unless you’ve experienced it yourself. Sadly, 15 babies still die on average […]
Maggie Simkiss founded the Hull branch of Sands, the national stillbirth and neonatal death charity, in April 1993, in memory of her third son Kieran, who died aged just 9 days. Baby loss has often been the centre of my life for the past 26 years. When Kieran died I felt that there was no […]
As we mark Baby Loss Awareness Week we are delighted to be supporting the Stillbirth and Neonatal Death Society (Sands) as part of our ‘Life After Baby Loss’ campaign to continue to help bereaved parents and encourage improvements in the NHS. This year marks the 16th anniversary of the annual awareness week and is an […]
Two Leeds dentists have agreed a joint £45,000 damages settlement with a patient after their combined poor treatment and errors saw him develop widespread gum disease and bone loss, causing him to spend a year without any teeth on his bottom jaw. Former teacher John Miles believed his dedication to brushing first thing in a […]
A woman who was shocked to be told she needed 10 teeth removing due to widespread gum disease has thanked Hudgell Solicitors for securing damages of £50,000 from her dentist – and the treatment which has put a smile back on her face. The successful dental negligence compensation claim has ensured the patient, of Derbyshire, […]
A hospital trust has admitted putting a mum through four rounds of chemotherapy which she didn’t need – with the error only discovered after she researched the recommended treatment and information herself. Jodi Huggett, 41, took legal action against Hull and East Yorkshire Hospital’s NHS Trust after discovering her chemotherapy treatment following an operation to […]
A medical negligence solicitor says a hospital specialist’s decision not to carry out a colonoscopy on a women displaying ‘red flag’ symptoms of bowel cancer was ‘completely inexcusable’ – and one which independent experts say cost the woman at least 10 years of life. Mary Badham had visited her GP with classic symptoms of bowel […]
HULL and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust has paid £25,000 compensation to a woman whose baby girl was delivered stillborn The damages payment – and public apology – comes after medical experts consulted by Neil Hudgell Solicitors concluded that the woman’s baby would have been born healthy had a series of errors not been made. […]