Serious Injury

Hudgell Solicitors and the Spinal Injuries Association (SIA) are jointly calling for a Parliamentary Inquiry to be held into the provision of bowel care for patients with spinal cord injuries in healthcare settings. If follows a recent Parliamentary roundtable meeting, organised by the SIA, which I attended on behalf of our firm, alongside around 30 […]

Hudgell Solicitors is supporting calls for a Parliamentary Inquiry to be held into the ‘inadequate and dangerous’ state of bowel care for patients with spinal cord injuries in healthcare settings. It follows MPs, NHS representatives and Government officials being told how in some cases patients are left feeling ‘humiliated’ as they are unable to go […]

In the run-up to Christmas a donation of £10,000 has been made to the Leeds based charity Day One Trauma Support by Hudgell Solicitors. The funding will support families during the immediate aftermath of a life-changing serious injury with accommodation so loved ones can remain near to a hospital and to provide clothes for patients […]

Hudgell Solicitors and the Spinal Injuries Association (SIA) are joining together as campaign partners to fight for change and to amplify the voice of people living with spinal cord injuries. In the UK, 2,500 people sustain a spinal cord injury every year – injuries which affect every aspect of their lives, from managing continence to […]

Working on a farm remains one of the most dangerous jobs in the UK. While other industries have managed to reduce the number of accidents at work and deaths over the last decade the agricultural sector continues to see a significant number of fatalities and injuries. Agricultural workers are most at risk of being seriously […]

Pounding through the streets of Hull and over the hills of East Riding when training together three times a week, Paul Spence and Neil Hudgell have formed a friendship out of adversity and a passion for helping change lives for the better. Having completed a series of iconic marathons together in recent years including New […]

The pandemic has radically altered the way we work, whether that’s been a shift to working from home or, if you’re an NHS frontline worker, coping with increased responsibility. It has also had an impact on occupational accidents and stress. The latest figures from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) reveal that while occupational deaths […]

In this blog “Coping and compensatory strategies after acquired brain injury” I will cover: What are coping/compensatory strategies My experiences pre/post brain injury My advice for others Coping strategies are an action, a series of actions, or a thought process used to help in a stressful or unpleasant situation. Compensatory strategies are techniques or modifications […]

Hudgell Solicitors is proud to support Headway’s Action for Brain Injury week campaign A life of lockdown? Reach out to help out!. The charity’s campaign, which runs from May 17-23, aims to give a voice to those affected by brain injury and raise awareness of social isolation, a problem that has been exacerbated by the […]

Clifton Henry says returning home from hospital after having his leg amputated was the moment he truly realised how much his life had been forever changed. Describing himself as ‘hugely positive’ and someone who’d told himself to ‘battle on’, his confidence and belief were shattered when he couldn’t even get into his own home alone. […]

Our legal work brings us into contact with many people whose lives have been forever changed by injury – with the most serious usually suffered in accidents on the roads or when at work. We often meet people when they are feeling at their lowest point, when they and their loved ones are still coming […]

As somebody fortunate enough not to have experienced losing a limb in my life, I can of course only try and imagine the impact of such a life-changing situation. I can’t begin to understand the feelings of denial, grief and anger experienced by people receiving the devastating news that they need an amputation, or that […]