The Claimant’s elderly father was admitted to hospital with breathing difficulties during the height of the Covid pandemic. Her father was frail and having previously undergone a laryngectomy, breathed through stoma. The claimant was extremely concerned about the standard of the nutritional, stoma and respiratory care provided to her father who was treated on a general ward as opposed to a ward with experience of management of laryngectomy patients. The Claimant’s father sadly passed away 10 days after his admission following a cardiac arrest and a further episode of  respiratory deterioration.

Moosa-Duke Solicitors investigated the treatment received by the Claimant’s father to establish whether this was unacceptable despite the circumstances prevailing as a result of the pandemic and to establish whether the Deceased would have survived his hospital stay with better care and contacted the Trust responsible alleging a failure to appropriately manage the Deceased’s nutrition, stoma, laryngectomy site and respiratory care.

Whilst liability was denied on the basis that, in the context of the pandemic, the care provided was of a comparable standard to that delivered by other hospital trusts at the point in time, and that the Deceased’s health and  prognosis was  extremely poor in any event  such that his death could not be avoided, Moosa-Duke  were able to reach a negotiated settlement  with the Trust on behalf of the Claimant.

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