August 5th, 2009
The parents of a baby who died shortly after her birth are to receive compensation for the errors made at the time.
Ellie Harman was delivered at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in October 2006, but staff failed to notice that she was the wrong way up in the womb, the London Evening Standard reports.
As a result, midwives used the wrong forceps and Ellie was suffocated. Although attempts were made to resuscitate her, the life support machine was turned off five days later.
Ben and Katherine Harman took legal action against the hospital, claiming that their daughter would still be alive had it not been for the failings there. Mrs Harman alleged that she was made to wait for two hours before being admitted to the ward because of overcrowding.
In a new development, those responsible for the hospital have agreed to a £50,000 payout for the pain and suffering the parents were caused.
According to the Daily Telegraph, half of all claims for clinical negligence are maternity cases.
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August 5th, 2009
The parents of a baby who died shortly after her birth are to receive compensation for the errors made at the time.
Ellie Harman was delivered at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in October 2006, but staff failed to notice that she was the wrong way up in the womb, the London Evening Standard reports.
As a result, midwives used the wrong forceps and Ellie was suffocated. Although attempts were made to resuscitate her, the life support machine was turned off five days later.
Ben and Katherine Harman took legal action against the hospital, claiming that their daughter would still be alive had it not been for the failings there. Mrs Harman alleged that she was made to wait for two hours before being admitted to the ward because of overcrowding.
In a new development, those responsible for the hospital have agreed to a £50,000 payout for the pain and suffering the parents were caused.
According to the Daily Telegraph, half of all claims for clinical negligence are maternity cases.
Tags: Attempts, Baby Parents, Chelsea And Westminster Hospital, Clinical Negligence, Daily Telegraph, Ellie, Forceps, Harman, London Evening Standard, Maternity, Overcrowding, Womb, Wrong Way
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April 23rd, 2009
An NHS trust has awarded compensation of £6.3 million to the parents of a girl who was left brain damaged due to mistakes at her birth.
Ellie Matraves was born clinically dead at Lister Hospital in Herfordshire in 2002 because medical staff had not noticed that she was showing signs of distress, the high court heard.
She had to be aggressively resuscitated for several hours and developed cerebral palsy, leaving her with communication problems and a reduced developmental age, the BBC reports.
Her parents Claire and Colin Matraves took legal action against the East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust for clinical negligence.
"We feel it is important for people to understand that if it hadn’t been for the hospital’s appalling negligence, our daughter would have been born a healthy non-disabled baby girl," they said in a statement.
The trust admitted liability and has agreed to a £2.4 million lump sum payout, as well as annual payments to cover care for the rest of Ellie’s life.
According to Scope, one in 400 children in the UK suffers from cerebral palsy. Around ten per cent of cerebral palsy compensation claims are due to complications at birth.
Tags: 3m, Baby Girl, Bbc, Brain, Cerebral Palsy, Clinical Negligence, Communication Problems, Compensation Claims, Ellie, Herfordshire, Lump Sum Payout, Medical Staff, Nhs Trust, North Hertfordshire, Parents, People, Scope, Signs
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November 28th, 2008
Nottingham University Hospitals has paid £10,000 to the family of four-month-old Ellie Behan, who died from a rare bowel condition less than two weeks after being discharged from Queen’s Medical Centre (QMC).
The Nottingham Evening Post reports that Ellie had shown signs of being seriously ill when she vomited green liquid in front of nurses, but the information was not passed on to doctors and the family were told they could take her home later that day.
She then became critically ill and died nine days later.
Ellie had initially been admitted for vomiting green liquid, but she vomited clear liquid in front of the doctor who first saw her, which indicated that her ailment was not as serious. Her case was then passed on to another doctor.
"We are deeply sorry that there were shortcomings in the care she received," commented trust spokesman Stephen Fowlie.
"Ellie should not have been discharged when she first came to the QMC."
The news comes as the Southport Visitor revealed that medical payouts by Southport and Ormskirk NHS Trust increased by 60 per cent over the last 12 months.
Tags: 12 Months, Ailment, Behan, Doctor Who, Ellie, Fowlie, Hospital Trust, Medical Centre, Nine Days, Nottingham Evening Post, Nurses, Ormskirk, Qmc, Shortcomings, Southport And Ormskirk Nhs Trust, Southport Visitor, Spokesman, University Hospitals, Wrongful Discharge
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