Hospital Negligence
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Ben Ward, a partner in Ashtons’ medical negligence team, has obtained full admissions of liability from an NHS Trust that a young woman, Ms A, suffered cerebral palsy as a...
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Tom West, Medical Negligence solicitor, has obtained a six-figure settlement for the family of a man who suffered brain damage as a result of a hospital’s failure to monitor and...
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Sharon Allison, partner and head of the medical negligence team at Ashtons Legal, has obtained a settlement of £50,000 for Ms F, a woman who suffered significant damage to her...
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The vast majority of surgeries that are carried out run without any complications and have the ability to greatly improve a patient’s quality of life. However, occasionally surgical errors are...
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Julie Crossley, a medical negligence specialist at Ashtons Legal, has obtained a settlement of £75,000 for a man who suffered a perforated oesophagus as a result of being given the...
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Amanda Cavanagh, a medical negligence specialist at Ashtons Legal, has obtained a settlement for Ms R, a woman whose appendix ruptured after a Cambridgeshire hospital failed to diagnose and treat...
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A Medical Negligence solicitor at Ashtons Legal has obtained a five-figure settlement for the family of Mr K, a vulnerable man who died from flu after a Norfolk hospital failed...
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An A&E department has been rated ‘inadequate’ by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) after it was found to have significant delays in admitting and discharging patients, poor infection risk control...
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An inquest has found that ‘shocking’ mistakes contributed to the death of a baby at the Queen’s Medical Centre in 2018. Kaylan Coates, son of Hayley Coates, suffered a fractured...
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Maternity services at the East Kent NHS Trust are currently being reviewed after 15 babies have died in their care in recent years. Dan and Alison Halligan, the parents of...
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More and more patients are having to be cared for in hospital corridors as a result of overcrowded A&E units, NHS staff have warned. “Corridor nursing” runs the risk of...
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West Suffolk Hospital, in Bury St Edmunds, has been faced with a medical negligence bill 10 times larger than last year, research has found. The hospital, which just last month...
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