A 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 the […]
A care worker who attended an NHS Urgent Treatment Centre complaining of an infection in his finger had to have it amputated five days later due to a lack of care. A successful medical negligencecase, led by Hudgell Solicitors, was brought against City Healthcare Partnership which, in an out of court settlement, admitted liability and a […]
In the UK around 100,000 people suffer a stroke each year. It remains one of the leading causes of death. Although someone suffers a stroke every five minutes, an increasing number survive due to early diagnosis and treatment as well as clinical innovations; there are an estimated 1.3 million people in the UK who are […]
A patient has been awarded £45,000 medical negligence compensation due to a stent – which he was not told had been fitted – becoming embedded in his bile duct after doctors forgot to call him back to have it removed. The patient, 47, had surgery in May 2017 at Manchester Royal Infirmary to remove his […]
The NHS system is ‘gridlocked’ and people in need of urgent care are at an increased risk of harm says a worrying report by The Care Quality Commission (CQC). In its recently published annual report for 2021/22, the independent regulator, says long delays in ambulance response times, patients waiting in ambulances outside A&E departments and […]
A patient of a London hospital suffered liver and kidney damage after her blood samples were left unchecked by a registrar who went on holiday and then signed them off remotely without having seen them. The medical negligence case has led to changes in policies at The University Hospital Lewisham, with ‘staff reminded of their […]
Highly-experienced clinical negligence specialist Elizabeth Maliakal has been promoted to an ‘Associate Solicitor’ position just months after joining Hudgell Solicitors as part of an acquisition of the clinical negligence practice where she formerly worked. Mrs Maliakal was part of a nine-strong team to transfer to Hudgells from HH Legal in a deal last November. She […]
A 23-year-old pharmacist who fell and broke his wrist has been awarded £50,000 compensation after a hospital removed his cast after just two weeks and failed to carry out further x-rays, leaving his bone permanently damaged. The man, who does not wish to be identified, has now been awarded the substantial damages settlement after making […]
Hudgell Solicitors has secured a five-figure damages settlement for a woman after surgeons mistakenly punctured her bladder when carrying out a hysterectomy. As a result of the error, which was not noticed at the time by doctors at Hull and East Yorkshire Women and Children’s Hospital, the 50-year-old woman collapsed in agony at home a […]
Hudgell Solicitors are representing a number of families in pursuing civil claims against Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, which runs Addenbrooke’s Hospital, on behalf of victims Dr Myles Bradbury. We have has previously called on health secretary Jeremy Hunt to launch a ‘full and independent inquiry’ into how Bradbury’s crimes, abusing a large number […]
A solicitor representing the victims of paedophile doctor Myles Bradbury says his decision to appeal his 22-year prison sentence is ‘shocking’. The Cambridgeshire children’s doctor, who cared for gravely ill young boys, was jailed last December after admitting sexually abusing 18 boys in his care, whilst working as a paediatrician at Addenbrooke’s Hospital. Now, it […]
