Clinical Negligence
Cardiology / - Delayed diagnosis and failure to appropriately treat endocarditis including fatal accident claims- Surgical delays
- Inappropriate treatment
Cosmetic Surgery / - Breast Implants
- Abdomnioplasty
Consent / - Failure to appropriately consent to treatment in a variety of contexts including gastric surgery, cardiology and gynaecology.
Dental Negligence / - Dental implement retained post-surgery
General Practice / - Incorrect drugs (NSAIDs prescribed in absence of PPI)
- Delayed referral cases
- Incorrect advice
Hepato-biliary / - Cholecystectomy (multiple cases some involving serious permanent injury)
Microbiology / - Hospital acquired infections
- Inappropriate antibiotics or inappropriate dosages
- Failure to provide surgical antibiotic cover
Neurology / - Delayed diagnosis – brain tumour, catastrophic injury case
- Delayed diagnosis of subarachnoid haemorrhages
- Traumatic brain injury
- Stroke: failure to prevent and failure to treat appropriately
Nursing / - Pressure ulceration multiple cases including in presence of severe spinal injury
- Falls in hospital and nursing home contexts
Obstetrics & Gynaecology / - Wrongful birth
- Post-partum haemorrhage
- Erb’s Palsy
- Intrauterine growth restriction and stillbirth
- Intra-partum care
- Failed sterilisation
- Cerebral palsy attributable to intra-partum care
- Hysterectomy in presence of missed pregnancy
- Gynaecological surgery resulting in injury to gastro-intestinal tract, bladder, uterus and/or ureters
Orthopaedics / - Failure to diagnose fractures
- Failure to perform surgery appropriately or appropriate surgery
- Amputation both below and above knee
Otorhinolaryngology / - Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve Injury
Product Liability / - Breast Implants
Psychology/Psychiatry / - Inappropriate medication (Diazepines)
- Failure to prevent suicide
- Secondary victims
- Multiple psychiatric injury claims including: Clinical Depression, PTSD, Chronic Anxiety and Phobias.
Radiology / - Failure to obtain or interpret CT/MRI/X-ray/ultrasound appropriately
Rheumatology / - Chronic pain, Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue
Urology / - Urological testing leading to chronic penile pain
- Iatrogenic ureteric injury
- Drug induced kidney failure
- Stress & urge incontinence (male and female)
- TVT/TOT surgery
- Urodynamics
Vascular/Endocrinology / - Failure to monitor diabetic leading to leg amputation