Bristol Personal Injury Blog

“Inadequate” NHS trust services

Posted: 20th January 2016

Posted in: Medical Negligence 

Services at Wye Valley NHS Trust Hereford Hospital have been found to be “inadequate” upon inspection by the Trust Development Authority in October 2014.  The inspection resulted in the hospital being placed in special measures, stating that particular concern was raised to medical care and emergency services. In February of 2015 an improvement director was appointed […]

Number of district nurses fallen by 40%

Posted: 19th January 2016

Posted in: Medical Negligence 

For over 150 years, district nurses have been supporting people in their own homes, keeping them out of hospital.  Official figures are showing, however, that the number of district nurses has fallen by 40% in the past 10 years. The Health and Social Care Information Centre has reported that where a decade ago there were […]

Concerns raised over lack of health insurance for winter sport holidaymakers

Posted: 2nd January 2016

Posted in: Accidents and Sickness Abroad Sporting Injuries 

The Telegraph is warning skiers about the dangers of going on holiday without adequate insurance. Injury sustained whilst skiing or snowboarding tends to be serious, such as broken bones, dislocations and damage to ligaments and with many ski resorts being in remote locations, the price of emergency medical transport can be extremely high. The price of […]

Medical negligence victim wins £2m after losing eyesight

Posted: 28th December 2015

Posted in: Medical Negligence Sporting Injuries 

A man from Saughall Massie has been awarded £2million in compensation after hospital staff failed to save the sight in his one working eye. 39-year-old Colin Fortune lost the sight in his right eye in 2001 following a sports accident. However, when doctors failed to monitor and treat his left eye, he was left completely […]

£225K medical negligence compensation over misdiagnosis

Posted: 26th December 2015

Posted in: Medical Negligence Spine & Back Injuries 

A lorry driver has been awarded £225K in compensation after GPs on two separate occasions failed to identify Cauda Equina Syndrome. 54-year-old Martyn Wall injured his back five years ago while repositioning road signs from his lorry. When he attended his GP practice, however, he was told it was muscle strain and was prescribed basic […]

Hospital trust fined over patient deaths

Posted: 20th December 2015

Posted in: Medical Negligence Public Place Accidents Wrongful & Accidental Death 

An NHS trust has been fined after it was discovered that basic errors caused the deaths of four patients. The trust that previously ran Stafford Hospital, Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust, admitted four charges relating to the deaths of elderly people between 2005 and 2014.  Where the trust was originally fined £500,000 for the “blunders”, […]

Season’s Greetings from the Bristol No Win No Fee Team

Posted: 3rd December 2015

Posted in: Personal Injury 

On behalf of the whole team at Bristol Personal Injury, I would like to wish you a Happy Christmas, and season’s greetings moving in to the New Year, 2016. Personally it’s been a very exciting year here with the team, as we’ve helped countless people in the area with personal injury claims, and have helped […]

Man rescues child from dog attack

Posted: 30th November 2015

Posted in: Animal Attacks Head and Brain Injuries 

A Leicestershire Crown Court judge has praised a man after saving a four-year-old child from a serious dog attack. It was heard that the dog had clamped its jaws on the young girl’s face, so the man wrestled the dog off her and managed to tether it. It was heard that the Staffordshire bull terrier, […]

90-year-old left on hospital trolley for 11 hours

Posted: 28th November 2015

Posted in: Medical Negligence 

Queen’s Medical Centre in Nottingham has issued an apology to 90 year-old Margaret Slater after leaving her to lie on a trolley in the Accident and Emergency department on 11 November without food or water for 11 hours. The dementia patient was taken to the hospital suffering from severe hallucinations and was seen by a […]

Maternity staff errors cause baby death

Posted: 16th November 2015

Posted in: Birth Injury Medical Negligence Wrongful & Accidental Death 

A hospital trust has admitted to errors that resulted in the death of a newborn baby earlier this year. The baby girl died only two days after being born, with an investigation finding that she would have survived had her mother been given a caesarean section sooner. Delilah Hubbard died on 9 March in Leicester […]