What is 'Medical Negligence'? In a perfect world, medical professionals would always provide the highest standard of care. However, mistakes can and do happen. When they do, the consequences can be devastating, leaving patients unable to work or...
In a career spanning over 25 years, medical negligence lawyer Melanie Reynolds has often found her work misunderstood. Preconceptions, misunderstandings and stereotypes often combine to give a false impression of her work at the intersection of compassion...
Every March, the world observes Cerebral Palsy Awareness Month. This is a time dedicated to raising awareness of the neurological condition that affects movement, muscle tone and motor skills, advocating for those living with it and celebrating their...
Compensation Claims Need Updating Dutton Gregory Solicitor’s Medical Negligence Lead, Melanie Reynolds, is joining colleagues in her profession in the hope that 40 year old case law will soon be overturned by the Supreme Court. The claimant...
The Medical Negligence Team at Dutton Gregory is delighted that’s its team leader, Melanie Reynolds, has been accepted to the Specialist Clinical Negligence Panel of UK Charity, ‘Action against Medical Accidents (AvMA)’. The charity,...
Support for industry challenge to Government proposal The leader of Dutton Gregory’s specialist Medical Negligence Team, Melanie Reynolds, has publicly expressed her gratitude to the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL) for challenging a...
Call for Reform of Bereavement Laws The leader of our specialist Medical Negligence Team, Melanie Reynolds, has welcomed the news of positive steps being made to draw attention to the need to revisit laws that support bereaved families. At the start of...
The High Court is to rule on a damages claim against the NHS by a man who was discharged from A&E without seeing a doctor in 2006. He went on to suffer a heart attack and stroke four years later. The claimant says...
Melanie Reynolds, Clinical Negligence solicitor at Dutton Gregory agrees with the comments from APIL's President - Jonathan Wheeler (see below). Melanie says "There's a clear conflict of interest here as the Government is behind the NHS....
Dutton Gregory’s clinical negligence department received confirmation this week that they have been successful in their bid for a new 2015 legal aid contract. Over the past 12 years our experienced medical negligence team has advised and...
The claimant, a 26-year-old woman, received £28,000 for injury arising from the death of one of her twins in utero as a result of clinical negligence in August 2008. She developed post-traumatic stress disorder which impacted on her domestic, work and...
A 65-year-old woman, received £10,000 for the negligent removal of her tooth without a pre-existing hole in her sinus having been checked, in January 2012. She suffered a year of severe headaches and bad taste and smell in her mouth before a foreign...
Patients are entitled to a face-to-face explanation & apology if something goes wrong from doctors, nurses and midwives. This is set out in the new joint guidance from the General Medical Council and the Nursing Midwifery Council. These regulations say...
CG v FRIMLEY PARK HOSPITAL NHS FOUNDATION TRUST (2014) Total Damages: £120,000 (£120,233.01 RPI) Trial/settlement date: 1/12/2014 Age at trial: 28 The Claimant, a 28-year-old man, received total...
Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has been prosecuted for endangering patients through failing to control legionella. The Trust was fined £50,000 with costs of £38,705.60 after a joint investigation by the Health and...
Daily Telegraph, 5 June 2015: A health board is being sued after a patient woke up to find both his legs had been amputated. Mr Watson, 69, was admitted to hospital to receive treatment for a vascular problem. He alleged nothing had been done about his...
EXP v Barker The claimant suffered an ruptured aneurysm in 2011, she brought a claim in personal injuries against a consultant who had viewed an MRI scan on the claimant in 1999. The claimant had been informed that the brain scan was clear. Following the...
EC v NHS COMMISSIONING BOARD (2014) The Claimant, a 45-year-old woman, received £15,000 for the unnecessary excision of incorrect labial tissue during a procedure to correct a posterior extension of the left labium minus which had resulted from a...
Nadine Montgomery from Lanarkshire, Scotland, has won a landmark clinical negligence case which has huge implications for the UK. It was a long running case which had to go all the way to the Supreme Court on appeal. Mrs Montgomery argued...
YC v BOOTS UK LTD (2014) The claimant, a 59 year old woman, received £2,150 after she was given the wrong medication and suffered side effects for 10 days. She was given Prochlorperazine, an antiemetic and anti vertigo drug,...
PW v ST HELIER UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS TRUST (2014) Total Damages: £7,500 (£7,508.73 RPI) Trial/settlement date: 7/10/2014 Age at trial: 77 Type of Award: Out of Court Settlement Age at injury: 76 Sex: Female ...
The judgment is available at: [2015] EWHC 1376 (QB) In 2006, the claimant, HS, was born at the defendant hospital. When HS was born she was suffering from a streptococcal infection. Negligent failure by the paediatricians with the neo-natal...
M v PORTSMOUTH HOSPITALS NHS TRUST (2014) Total Damages: £40,000 (£40,234.38 RPI) Trial/settlement date: 22/7/2014 Age at trial: 38 PSLA: £30,000 (£30,175.78 RPI) Type of Award: Out...
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