The Claimant sought compensation for injuries sustained as a result of delays in diagnosing spinal cord compression on 04.09.15 and 18.09.15. She was referred for physiotherapy treatment having developed back pain and loss of sensation in the calf and base of her foot in August 2015 and on 04.09.15 attended A&E on the advice of her physiotherapist after she described…
Read MoreThe 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…
Read MoreFollowing the death of Mr DL (83) from Crawley in West Sussex, a loving father, husband, grandfather and great-grandfather, his family sought answers from Barts NHS Trust, but to no avail. Feeling they had no other option left available to them, they turned to clinical negligence lawyers at Moosa-Duke Solicitors to fight for justice. The family had also failed to…
Read MoreWhat happened? For over a year, Y had been experiencing irregular bleeding between periods, heavy periods, and bleeding after sexual intercourse. Y saw her GP on several occasions over an 18-month period about the problems that she was having. On some of the occasions that she saw a GP, she was advised to have a smear test, but the test…
Read MoreWhat Happened to X? X suffered an extravasation injury whilst an inpatient at the Defendant Trust. An extravasation injury is where intravenous medication or fluids unintentionally leak into the tissue surrounding the vein. Such injuries are usually identifiable by pain, inflammation, swelling, blisters or burns, and can occur non-negligently. After X suffered the injury, there was a delay in identifying…
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