February 18th, 2011
In March 2003 Lucy gave birth to her first child.
The doctor tried to remove the placenta manually, but the cord became separated from the placenta, and it had to be removed in pieces manually.
Lucy started to recover and was discharged three days after giving birth, but continued to suffer ‘flu type symptoms and continued to bleed from her vagina.
At the start of April 2003 Lucy contacted her GP as she had passed a large blood clot. She was immediately referred to hospital and an ultrasound there confirmed the presence of pieces of the placenta in her womb.
The following day Lucy underwent surgery to remove the pieces of placenta. However, during the procedure the base layer of the endometrium was removed causing a condition called Asherman’s syndrome. This prevented Lucy from having periods and made the chances of future conception very unlikely.
Fortunately Lucy did conceive and gave birth to her second child in September 2009, although she had been unable to plan this pregnancy.
Lucy contacted Pryers in July 2006 to investigate her claim and Alex McKnight, as specialist in clinical negligence claims handled her case. She entered into a ‘no win no fee’ agreement to fund the case.
Prior to the second pregnancy the Defendant agreed that Lucy was suffering from Asherman’s Syndrome. However, following the second pregnancy they stated that this was an incorrect diagnosis and that in the alternative if the diagnosis was correct, the cause was a pelvic infection, rather than the consequences of any negligence.
We obtained expert evidence which was supportive, but the Defendant’s expert disagreed on almost every point.
The matter was listed to go to trial in February 2011, however, in December 2010 an offer was received from the Defendant to settle Lucy’s compensation and our costs.
Lucy received £7,500 in damages to cover the pain and suffering and the subsequent difficulties in family planning in addition to the Defendant paying our costs so she did not have anything to pay and received 100% of her compensation.
Tags: Asherman S Syndrome, Blood Clot, Clinical Negligence, Consequences, Damages, Defendant, Endometrium, Expert Evidence, Family Planning, Flu, Giving Birth, Incorrect Diagnosis, Lucy, Pain And Suffering, Pelvic Infection, Placenta, Second Pregnancy, Ultrasound, Vagina, Womb
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March 24th, 2010
Pryers solicitors in York have recovered £30,000 for a client who suffered an injury whilst giving birth that was not adequately treated, leaving her to suffer life long symptoms of incontinence.
Tags: Giving Birth, Inadequate Treatment, Medical Claim, Medical Negligence Claim, Medical Treatment, Solicitors
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October 12th, 2009
A man is seeking compensation from an NHS trust after his wife died due to a series of hospital blunders.
Claire Joel, 28, was admitted to Medway Maritime Hospital in October last year so that she could give birth to her daughter, Kent News reports.
However, she experienced difficulties and staff did not react quickly enough, failing to administer antibiotics and delaying her emergency Cesarean. Ms Joel died from an infection five days after giving birth to her child.
The coroner’s statement said: "[There were] gross failures to provide the basic treatment and care that her medical condition required and she died from natural causes contributed to by neglect."
Her husband Mark said he is to pursue a compensation claim against Medway NHS Trust.
Earlier this month, it was revealed that patient Toni Dinan is seeking compensation from Scarborough and North East Yorkshire Healthcare NHS Trust, alleging that failures in her care led to her baby being stillborn.
Tags: Antibiotics, Compensation Claim, Coroner, Dinan, East Yorkshire, Emergency Cesarean, Giving Birth, Gross, Healthcare Nhs Trust, Hospital Blunders, Kent News, Led, Medical Condition, Medway Maritime Hospital, Neglect, Scarborough, Woman Dies In Hospital, Yorkshire
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July 11th, 2008
The NHS is consistently failing mothers when they are giving birth, it has been claimed.
Jill Kirby, the director of the Centre for Policy Studies writes in the Daily Telegraph that she gave birth to her eldest son in a "chaotic and dirty" NHS hospital and was left unable to walk for days after a "traumatic and botched delivery."
Ms Kirby also says that as many as 80 per cent of mothers feel they are left alone for too long during labour.
Among the reasons she cites for the failure are the inability of maternity units to meet local needs and what she describes as the government’s attempts to ‘demedicalise’ the experience of giving birth.
"I’d like to think that my future daughters-in-law will have better maternity care than I did. But I’m not counting on it," she commented.
A two-year study was published by the Healthcare Commission yesterday. Among it’s findings were that some hospitals have to few midwives and beds.
Tags: Beds, Daily Telegraph, Daughters In Law, Eldest Son, Failure, Giving Birth, Healthcare Commission, Hospitals, Labour, Maternity Care, Maternity Units, Midwives, Ms Kirby, Nhs
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