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.
Haemotology
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Haemotology is the study of blood and blood disorders. We have represented a number of people whose blood disorder has been mismanaged or has not been detected.
Case Reports
Hospital poisoned Paul and Liam McNeely for 25 years
Substantial settlement as The Royal Liverpool Hospital admit iron overload.
Rachel Donovan, Associate solicitor at John Pickering and Partners represented Paul and Liam McNeely against The Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospital NHS Trust.
Paul and Liam were born with a life threatening genetic condition called Pyruvate Kinase Disorder. This is an inherited blood disorder which manifests clinically as anaemia therefore both men require regular blood transfusions.
Repeated red cell transfusions caused excessive iron to load into their bodies causing iron overload. This is poisonous to the vital organs and from an early age patients with this disorder, or any disorder requiring blood transfusions, require medication to remove (chelate) the excess iron which cannot otherwise be excreted naturally.
The hospital failed to remove the iron and it built up in Paul and Liam’s body causing destruction of liver tissue, damaging the endocrine glands and the heart. This damage causes disturbed metabolism, growth retardation, diabetes and bone problems such as osteoporosis. The reproductive organs are also highly sensitive to iron damage and delayed or arrested puberty and fertility problems are common.
Paul and Liam obtained a substantial out of court settlement.
Other blood disorders include Thalassaemia, a inherited blood disease which means the body is unable to produce adult haemoglobin and Sickle cell disease which is a condition that distorts the normal round shape of red blood cells to sickle form meaning the cells cannot move through the body easily causing life threatening symptoms.
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John Pickering and Partners LLP
About Us
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.
If you are not eligible for public funding, we can offer a Conditional Fee Agreement, also known as a ‘no win, no fee’ agreement with insurance. We shall check the best method of funding your claim.
All 3 of our offices (Liverpool, Manchester and Halifax) are accredited by the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers.
Claire Horton is an experienced clinical negligence solicitor who is based in our Manchester office. She continues to practice as an independent funding ajudicator for the Legal Services Commission and acts on a pro-bono basis for the AvMA helpline.
For further advice on medical negligence in Liverpool please also contact Rachel Donovan and for Halifax contact Ruth Davies, who are both experienced in the field of clinical negligence.
We provide free initial advice to people seeking information about a potential clinical negligence claim.
If you need advice about a clinical negligence claim, contact us now for information about making a claim for compensation.