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.
Cervical Cancer Screening
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Gildersome Health Centre in Morley, Leeds has recalled 1000 women after they have discovered that almost 1000 cervical smear tests carried out at Gildersome Health Centre may have been faulty.
NHS Chiefs in Leeds have ordered the recall of 968 women for re-testing after the checks revealed a possible problem dating back nearly 20 years. An investigation has now been launched but it is believed this could affect most of the smear tests carried out in the health centre since 1988.
It has been confirmed that mistakes in laboratory testing of samples have been ruled out which could mean the problem was when the smears were taken.
Rachel Donovan, solicitor at John Pickering and Partners LLP has succeeded against a number of health care providers in relation to misread pathology results, negligent examinations and/or ignoring critical symptoms which in turn has led, and is still leading to disastrous consequences.
Cancer cases can be difficult to prove and therefore it is so important that the potential claimant seeks advice from a specialist solicitor with experience in this area of medicine.
For further information please see below details.
John Pickering and Partners LLP
Further information:
Rachel Donovan, Solicitor
John Pickering and Partners LLP
19 Castle Street
Liverpool
L2 4SX
E-mail: don@johnpickering.co.uk
Website: www.johnpickering.co.uk
FREEPHONE: 0800 144 0958
John Pickering and Partners LLP have offices in Halifax and Manchester and offer home visits to clients.
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John Pickering and Partners LLP
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Our clients are people who have suffered injury as a result of a medical accident in the UK. We are clinical and medical negligence solicitors. We handle negligence claims against hospitals, GP’s and other medical practitioners for clients across the UK.
We try to obtain maximum amounts of compensation.
We are committed to providing public funding (previously known as Legal Aid) and have a franchise from the Community Legal Services Commission. This means that they have looked at the firm carefully and approved of the way we work. They consider that we are medical negligence claims specialists. They trust us to handle medical accident claims properly.
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