Charlotte Warner’s first child was stillborn due to mistakes midwives made during labour. Maternity staff stopped taking regular heart readings despite having induced labour. Charlotte was just 23 when she lost CJ as midwives failed to notice he was being starved of oxygen. A Serious Incident Investigation (SRI) into the care provided by St George’s […]
A woman whose baby was stillborn due to mistakes midwives made during labour says she was ‘appalled’ by the lack of compassion shown – telling how she spiralled into depression and how the pain of losing her first child will never fade. Charlotte Warner, of Streatham, south London, was 23 when she lost her baby boy […]
An inquiry into maternity care has highlighted ‘shockingly poor quality’ across the UK. An All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) inquiry into the birth trauma experiences of hundreds of women found good care for pregnant women to be ‘the exception rather than the rule’, with ‘poor care all too frequently tolerated as normal’. Our medical negligence lawyer Maria Repanos […]
Hudgell Solicitors has renewed its call for a Statutory Inquiry into the standard of Britain’s maternity services as a new report today highlighted the ‘shockingly poor quality’ across the UK. An All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) inquiry into the birth trauma experiences of hundreds of women found good care for pregnant women to be ‘the exception rather than […]
Hudgell Solicitors has renewed its call for a Statutory Inquiry into the standard of Britain’s maternity services as a new report today highlighted the ‘shockingly poor quality’ across the UK. An All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) inquiry into the birth trauma experiences of hundreds of women found good care for pregnant women to be ‘the exception […]
Two of Hudgell Solicitors’ experienced clinical negligence team have been recognised for their industry-leading expertise with ‘specialist’ accreditations granted by the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL). Elizabeth Maliakal and Matthew Gascoyne each already had APIL Senior Litigator status, recognising their competence and ability to identify liability, assess and self-manage clinical negligence cases through all […]
Our client Megan Royle, of Beverley, East Yorkshire, 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 – to then be told she’d been wrongly diagnosed and had never had cancer at all. Megan was referred for a […]
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 annual reviews, […]
A legal conference being staged by Hudgell Solicitors will provide ‘essential industry leading medical and legal insights’ into ‘the ever-changing role and requirements of medical negligence lawyers.’ Having staged our first conference last year solely for our own members of staff, we are opening up our 2023 Clinical Negligence Conference to delegates from other law […]
The National Deaf Children’s Society is warning that “hundreds, if not thousands,” of children across England may have been left permanently damaged due to potential failings in NHS audiology services. The charity is now calling for ‘fresh assessments’ to be carried out nationally after “the appalling situation,” revealed in The Times newspaper, suggests many child […]
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 […]
