Accident and Emergency
This is often the first point of contact a patient will have with the NHS due to an illness or after an injury. The staff who practise in emergency medicine have skills in prevention, diagnosis and management.
Case reports
T -v- Calderdale & Huddersfield NHS Trust
The Claimant was taken to the Accident & Emergency Department at Calderdale Royal Infirmary after being knocked down by a car
and was diagnosed as having an unstable short spiral fracture of the right femur. Her leg was placed in a splint which had to be re-applied because it was the wrong size. She was admitted to the children’s ward of the hospital. She remained in hospital but there was a failure to monitor the healing process of her leg in the splint, to the extent that poor union of the femur was achieved and her leg was bent when the bone was healed and had a boney protruberance. The bowing of the leg also entailed shortening of the femur and consequently the leg itself.
The case settled for £28,000.00 which included damages for care provided to the Claimant by her parents, the cost of some reconstructive surgery on her scarring and damages for her psychological distress, as well as for the leg injuries overall and for the otherwise would have been unnecessary.
Headway Panel Achievement
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Rachel Donovan of John Pickering and Partners LLP has been invited to join the Headway Specialist Solicitor Panel.
Headway is a charity set up to give help and support to people affected by brain injury and through the charity specialist legal advice is available.
Headway set up the panel of experienced brain injury solicitors as they understand the importance of instructing a specialist solicitor with brain injury experience as brain injuries are complicated and involve different considerations from other forms of physical injury.
Rachel Donovan has pursued claims arising from brain injuries caused to babies during childbirth but she also has experience in dealing with cases involving adult brain injury caused, for example, by road traffic accidents or criminal acts.
The effects of a brain injury can have devastating consequences not only for the injured person but also for the family. John Pickering and Partners LLP are experienced in assessing, with the assistance of appropriate medical experts, the impact of brain injuries on a person’s education, development, lifestyle and employment.
John Pickering and Partners LLP have clients all over the country and are pleased to visit families at their homes as they strongly believe it is important to speak to their clients face to face at home. In this way they get to know their clients and their families and therefore have a better understanding of their clients’ needs.
Rachel Donovan says “I am delighted to be appointed as a solicitor to the Headway Brain Injury Panel as they provide a wonderful service to brain injured people. Representing brain injured people is both interesting and challenging but very rewarding. I have developed an expertise in brain injury work and I am very pleased that this has now been recognised by Headway.”
Further information:
Rachel Donovan, Solicitor
John Pickering and Partners LLP
19 Castle Street
Liverpool
L2 4SX
Freephone: 0808 144 0958
Fax: 0151 258 1262
E-mail: don@johnpickering.co.uk
Website: www.johnpickering.co.uk