December 10th, 2008
A young girl who was starved of oxygen at birth is to receive compensation to pay for her future care needs.
Chloe Ellen Faulkner, now eight, was born at King George Hospital in Goodmayes in 2000, but suffered brain damage during her delivery which led to cerebral palsy and spastic quadriplegia, the Ilford Recorder reports.
As a result, she can only communicate by moving her eyes, needs to be fed through a tube and requires medication throughout the day.
Her mother Maria Farquarson helped her to sue the hospital’s managers – Barking, Havering and Redbridge Hospitals NHS Trust – on the grounds of clinical negligence for delaying her delivery. It has now agreed to pay compensation.
Although the exact amount is unspecified, the payout is believed to run into millions of pounds when the annual payments for the rest of her life are taken into account.
Compensation for brain damage will often be more substantial than that for other injuries since it must cover care for the remainder of the person’s life in most circumstances.
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November 18th, 2008
A care worker who was repeatedly assaulted at a care home has won damages from the health trust responsible for the facility.
Lisa Carter, 38, was left with permanent neck damage and constant pain for which she still takes a number of medications, after attacks in 1996 and 1999, Manchester Evening News reports.
She has not been able to return to work since the second attack and said she had not been given sufficient training on how to restrain the patients, most of whom had severe learning difficulties.
Trafford Healthcare NHS Trust, which serves a population of about 227,492 people, from Old Trafford in the north of the borough to Hale in the south, has now agreed to a compensation settlement with Ms Carter after admitting liability in 2002.
Ms Carter will now receive £825,000 for the debilitating injuries, her loss of earnings and her future care costs.
A spokesperson for the NHS trust said: "We are truly sorry for the injuries this lady sustained and would like to offer her our sincere apologies."
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