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Multimillion-pound payout to 10yo girl who suffered brain damage from medical negligence
Posted: January 28, 2014
Posted in: Birth Injury Head and Brain Injuries Medical Negligence
Great Ormond Street Hospital are to pay out multi-million pounds worth of compensation to a young girl who was left severely brain damaged following a major medical error. 10-year-old Maisha Najeeb was accidently injected in the brain with glue after two syringes were mixed up prior to the procedure. The injection was meant to block […]
Read MoreFirm fined for 19-year-old who died from being crushed at work
Posted: January 22, 2014
Posted in: Employer Negligence Workplace Injuries Wrongful & Accidental Death
A firm has been fined £75,000 after an apprentice was crushed to death while working with machinery weighing almost a tonne. 19-year-old Jason Burden from South Shields was killed while reassembling the machine on a workbench when it fell onto his torso and left leg, causing his subsequent death. Mr Burden had been working at […]
Read MoreAmbulance service not doing its job
Posted: January 13, 2014
Posted in: Medical Negligence
Police in Essex are complaining that ambulance failures are resulting in an increased strain on the police service, with over 180 patients taken to hospital by police in the last year. Police said that they have been taking patients to hospital when ambulances are delayed or don’t show up: preventing them from doing their job properly. […]
Read MoreRural areas neglected by ambulance service?
Posted: December 31, 2013
Posted in: Medical Negligence
After a man recently collapsed and died while waiting for an ambulance to arrive, a minister has called for a reassessment of paramedic response time targets in England’s rural areas. 26-year-old Peter Nelson, from Blakeney in Norfolk, died in his home in November after having waited for nearly two hours for an ambulance to arrive. When […]
Read MoreLincolnshire and Nottinghamshire air ambulance takes on first night flights
Posted: December 28, 2013
Posted in: Personal Injury
Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire air ambulance service has modified their helicopters to allow the operation of overnight emergency flights. Night vision equipment has been installed, enabling crews to fly until 19:00 GMT throughout winter – an additional three hours to normal flight times. The charity behind the air ambulance service said that many more lives would be […]
Read MoreIndustrial ‘Oven death’ ruled accidental
Posted: December 15, 2013
Posted in: Workplace Injuries Wrongful & Accidental Death
After the body of a man was found in an industrial oven at a tyre factory in Cumbria, the inquest jury found the death to be an accident. 48-year-old George Falder died at the Pirelli site in Carlisle in September of last year, having worked at the factory for many years. The machine in which […]
Read More999 errors resulted in baby’s death
Posted: November 30, 2013
Posted in: Medical Negligence School Accidents Wrongful & Accidental Death
After a 999 call-handler made fatal errors when answering a phone-call regarding a choking baby, the nine-month old baby tragically died as a result. Millie Thompson started choking while being fed Shepard’s pie at her nursery in October 2012, after which a nursery-worker phoned for assistance. Instead of categorizing the phone-call as urgent, ambulance worker […]
Read MoreNew road safety scheme launched after spree of cyclist deaths
Posted: November 26, 2013
Posted in: Bicycle Accidents Road Traffic Accidents Wrongful & Accidental Death
A new road safety scheme has been launched following the numerous cyclist deaths that have occurred in London recently. Yesterday – Monday 25th November – saw some 150 road-users being fined for breaking road traffic laws in an attempt to improve the safety on roads. ‘Operation Safeway’ ensures that Met Police officers are deployed at […]
Read MoreBrain damaged boy awarded payout
Posted: November 20, 2013
Posted in: Birth Injury Head and Brain Injuries Medical Negligence
A 9-year-old boy has been awarded with a payout of £10m after being left severely brain damaged following mistakes made during his birth. Aaron Crosby, from Lincoln, is unable to speak or use his limbs after he was starved of oxygen during his birth at Lincoln County Hospital. During his birth, his mother had been administered a […]
Read More£6.5m birth liability agreed for 15 year old cerebral palsy sufferer
Posted: November 9, 2013
Posted in: Birth Injury Head and Brain Injuries Medical Negligence
The family of a child born with cerebral palsy after undergoing birthing complications has received £6.5m after the hospital admitted liability. 15-year-old Olivia Banks was diagnosed with the condition just before she turned 1-year-old – a result of her brain being starved of oxygen during birth. Olivia, from Parkfields in Wolverhampton, requires 24/7 care and support, […]
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