Lincolnshire woman jailed for NHS fraud
A woman from Lincolnshire has been jailed for contempt of court after being found to have deliberately misrepresented a claim for damages against the NHS of over £3 million. Yesterday she received a 26 week custodial sentence, of which she will serve a minimum of …
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Lorry driver in dishonest NHS compensation case
A judge has ruled that a lorry driver from Liverpool was fundamentally dishonest about his injuries in his attempt to claim more than £2.3 million in compensation from the NHS. Nigel Brown’s claim for clinical negligence against Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Mersey …
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Case of note: Sutton (deceased) v. Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust (Liverpool County Court, 31 May 2024 – Judge Richard Carter)
Introduction This case involves two related allegations – that the patient should have been provided with post-operative radiotherapy in October 2017; and that she ought to have been given palliative radiotherapy from early 2018. These failings, it was claimed, caused her unnecessary pain and suffering. …
Case of note: Paul v. Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust; Polmear v. Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust; Purchase v. Dr. Ahmed (Supreme Court – 11 January 2024)
Introduction These three cases were dealt with as a group by the Supreme Court because they all involved claims from secondary victims arising from instances of alleged clinical negligence. Secondary victims are not people who received the treatment which was said to have been negligent, …
Case of note: Anna Callaghan v. South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (High Court, 19 May 2023 – Ellenbogen J.)
Introduction This case involved the death of a week-old baby, following initial discharge from hospital, from Group B Streptococcus bacterial meningitis and septicaemia. Allegations centred on the midwifery care. The judgment is lengthy, amounting to 131 paragraphs and 53 pages, so this report is necessarily …
Case of note: JM v. University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust (Bournemouth County Court 30 September 2022 – Judge Walsh)
Introduction This case involved the consent process for gynaecological surgery. The claimant alleged she had been given insufficient options, as a result of which she chose total laparoscopic hysterectomy with bilateral removal of her ovaries, whereas had she been given greater choice she would not …
Case of note: White (deceased) v. Secretary of State for Health and Social Care (High Court, 2 December 2022 – Jeremy Hyam KC)
Introduction Mr. White died on 8 April 2020 from mesothelioma at the age of 87. His estate claimed that his death had been caused through wrongful exposure to asbestos dust whilst working at Sefton General Hospital in Liverpool between 1949 and 1960, when he was …
Farah Saber v. University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (Birmingham County Court, 2 December 2022 – Recorder Weaver KC)
Introduction Ms. Saber underwent an operation on 2 September 2013 to remove a tumour from her abdomen. This was carried out following general anaesthetic and an epidural. When she awoke from the procedure she could not move her legs and, whilst there has been improvement …
