Claire Levene of our Clinical Negligence Team has successfully settled a client’s medical negligence claim for surgical injury against Lewisham & Greenwich NHS Trust for damages in the sum of £120,000. Our client was incorrectly advised that she had several mid-line hernias …
Here at Powell & Co, we are proud to support good causes. We donate the fees paid for witnessing the swearing of oaths and affidavits to charity. In October we made a donation to the RNLI and continued our support of local …
The BBC have reported this morning that two “new mothers who died of herpes could have been infected by one surgeon” at East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust. It is reported that both women underwent Caesarean sections in 2018 and subsequently …
Details of the settlement in the case of EXN v Alder Hey Children’s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust were reported in the press last week. The 13-year-old Claimant in the case had been unwell with a viral illness at 17 months of age. …
Eight week old baby Ben Condon died at Bristol Royal Hospital for Children on 17 April 2015 having developed acute respiratory distress syndrome following a bacterial infection. An inquest into Ben’s death was held in 2016 at which the coroner was told …
A myocardial infarction (MI), also known as a heart attack, is a serious medical emergency that must be diagnosed and treated in a timely manner to avoid death, disability or other serious complications like heart failure and abnormal heartbeat. If there has …
If you or a loved one has experienced a delay in diagnosis and treatment of a testicular torsion, which has led to the loss of a testicle or any other complications, you may be entitled to make a claim for compensation. Powell …
Bodily integrity is the fundamental right to choose what happens to your own body. Violating a person’s bodily integrity is unethical and, in some circumstances, illegal. This is an issue that sometimes arises in medical negligence cases. In the context of medical …
If you intend to bring a claim for personal injury or medical negligence it is important to know that there are very strict rules about how long you have to make your claim. These rules are set out in the Limitation Act …
We were sad to read in the news recently that another NHS Trust is reported to have been providing poor maternity care. The historical problems with maternity care at Shrewsbury and East Kent Hospitals are well known but now care provided at …