Medical Negligence

A man who suffered a serious spinal injury as a result of a mistaken hospital diagnosis in 2000 has won an undisclosed amount in compensation. Liam Careless, now 23, was 12 years old when he was taken to Tameside Hospital complaining of paralysis in his...

The court has approved a compensation settlement of £900,000 for a boy whose leg had to be amputated shortly after he was born. Leo Ison, now six, was just three weeks old when doctors at Glenfield Hospital in Leicester told his parents that he would...

A woman who was left permanently disabled after a routine hip operation went wrong has won over £100,000 in damages. Margaret Peabody, 51, was suffering from painful osteoarthritis and, in 2008, underwent an operation at the St Cross Hospital in Rugby...

A young girl who was left severely brain damaged after complications during her birth has been awarded a seven-figure sum in compensation. Ella Franklin, now 11, was starved of oxygen when problems arose during her mother’s labour. As a result, she is...

A woman who suffered life-changing injuries after doctors were slow to diagnose her childhood meningitis has been awarded a compensation settlement worth £4.3 million. Natalie Tuthill, now 21, was admitted to Hull Royal Infirmary with a serious...

A boy from Weston-super-Mare has won £28,750 in compensation after doctors failed to diagnose acute appendicitis when he attended Bristol Children’s Hospital in 2005. Thomas Roberts, who was aged 11 at the time, was taken to the hospital by his...

A woman who endured severe pain for many years after a bungled operation to remove painful corns has won £100,000 in compensation. The unnamed woman, known only as Mrs P, had the foot operation in 1983, when she was 32 years old. She continued to...

Latex allergies have become increasingly common amongst people who have to wear gloves at work for health and safety reasons. The allergy is caused by the body becoming hypersensitive to proteins naturally present in latex and over-reacting to their...

A girl has won a settlement of £575,000 after complications during her birth left her with a disabled arm. When Zahra Salim-Jaffer, now 16, was born, the nerves supplying blood to her shoulder and arm were damaged due to shoulder dystocia, a...

A woman who has been left unable to have children after hospital staff failed to diagnose her life-threatening condition has won £160,000 in compensation. Joanne Connolly first attended hospital in May 2002, due to concerns regarding her pregnancy....

A resident in a nursing home, who suffered 40 per cent burns when she was lowered into a bath of hot water, has been awarded substantial compensation for the injuries she suffered. Jeanette De Bono, 28, suffers from a rare neurodevelopmental disorder and...

A teenager who was left with severe brain damage after complications during her birth has been awarded damages worth £5.3 million. Sophie Taylor, now 15, was starved of oxygen at birth and suffers from cerebral palsy as a result. Had she been born...

The NHS has paid out compensation totalling almost £200,000 to women who have become pregnant or been injured after undergoing treatment to have a contraceptive device implanted. The device, Implanon, consists of a tube which is implanted in the arm....

The parents of a young girl who suffered severe brain damage as a result of a lack of oxygen during her birth have secured a settlement worth £9 million in compensation for her injuries. Amy Smith, now 8 years old, was born twenty minutes after her...

The family of a woman who died of cervical cancer earlier this year has been awarded compensation after medical professionals repeatedly failed to detect abnormalities during routine screening tests. Debbie Phillips had regular smear tests over a 16-year...

A young boy who faces a lifetime of painful surgery and physiotherapy after NHS treatment failures has won an out of court settlement in compensation. Hayden Aspin was born in 1998 with both hips out of alignment, which meant that they could easily be...

A grandmother who has been diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer has received £75,000 in compensation after a hospital failed to investigate the cause of a shadow on her left lung, revealed in a previous X-ray. Janet Hardingham, 65, only discovered...

A three-year-old boy has been awarded damages of £50,000 after a hospital’s administrative error delayed the detection of a cancerous tumour in his right eye, which ultimately had to be removed. Harvey Dellar, then just 12 months old, was taken...

After a seven-year legal battle, a college lecturer has won compensation after delays in his medical treatment left him paralysed. Tim Joplin, 58, an artist and lecturer at Dudley College, was admitted to Russells Hall Hospital with pain in his shoulder and...

A man who was left in agony after a failed operation has won a six-figure sum in damages. In October 2004, Gerald Morgan, 60, had a spinal stimulator implanted at the Royal London Hospital to help combat pain he had suffered from for many years. However,...

In a landmark decision, the family of a woman who committed suicide while she was a patient in a psychiatric hospital has won £10,000 in compensation from the NHS Trust responsible for her care. Carol Savage, 50, absconded from the hospital in Essex...

A woman who went into hospital for routine gallstone treatment has been awarded a compensation package worth £3.45 million, after a series of medical blunders left her with severe brain damage. In January 2001, Grannia East, 44, was admitted for...

The family of a Staffordshire woman who died after a GP failed to diagnose that she had blood poisoning has received an out-of-court settlement. Josephine Brindley, a 36-year-old mother of two, visited her doctor shortly after injuring her shoulder in an...

A schoolgirl who suffered severe brain damage at birth has been awarded a compensation package worth £6.5 million. Rhiannon Hayman, 15, was starved of oxygen during her birth at the Princess of Wales Hospital in Bridgend and now has severe cerebral...

The family of an elderly patient who died of an insulin overdose administered by a hospital nurse has been awarded almost £50,000 in compensation. Doris Ludlam, 80, was one of four elderly patients who were given lethal injections of insulin by nurse...