Settled Elderly Care
Medical Negligence Cases

PATIENT’S DEATH FROM SEPSIS LEADS TO £10,000 PAYOUT

Multiple NHS trusts have agreed to pay £10,000 in personal injury damages after an elderly patient died from sepsis after developing pressure ulcers while in hospital.

Attwaters helped the family of the woman bring a clinical negligence case, which was settled jointly by Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust, Barts Health NHS Trust, The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust, and Barking, Havering and Redbridge university Hospitals NHS Trust.

The patient, who suffered from diabetes and peripheral vascular disease, was admitted to hospital after a fall, which resulted in two leg bone fractures. Following multiple surgeries, it’s alleged Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust failed to manage the woman’s risk of pressure ulcers developing, or deteriorating, while in its care.

Despite a consultant raising concerns about wound healing and necrotic skin, the patient was discharged home with a care package. The following day, the woman had another fall and was readmitted to hospital with sepsis, where she subsequently died.

FALL IN A CARE HOME – FIVE FIGURES

Attwaters acted for the son and daughter of an elderly female resident who sustained injuries whilst living in a care home. She had a fall which resulted in the fracture of her leg due to the negligence of the care home staff. The Claimant received £25,000.

FALL IN A CARE HOME – FOUR FIGURES

Claim following a fall in a care home successfully settled with damages award of four figures.

POOR CARE IN CARE HOME CAUSED PRESSURE SORES – FIVE FIGURE SETTLEMENT

We settled a case for an elderly man who had entered a care home but in the months that followed received such poor care that he developed a number of serious pressure sores which eventually required hospital admission. Part of the claim was also against the visiting District Nurses who failed to identify and treat all of the sores.

WRONG DRUGS ADMINISTERED IN CARE HOME – FIVE FIGURE SETTLEMENT

We successfully settled a case on behalf of a lady who was given medication that was meant for someone else. As a consequence she developed low blood pressure which caused her to fall and sustain an injury.

NEGLECT – FIVE FIGURE SETTLEMENT

Attwaters’ Medical Negligence team secured a five figure settlement in compensation for the family of an elderly who patient suffered neglect in Hospital.

NEGLIGENT CARE CAUSING PRESSURE SORES – FIVE FIGURE SETTLEMENT

Attwaters’ Medical Negligence team settled a claim on behalf of an Estate for a significant five figure settlement relating to pressure sores sustained by an elderly patient during a hospital admission prior to her death.

FATALITY – FIVE FIGURE SETTLEMENT

We settled a fatal claim for a five figure settlement where there was a failure to provide one-to-one nursing supervision to an elderly lady who was assessed as being at a high risk of falls. As a consequence, she fell whilst unsupervised, suffered a subdural haematoma and died a week later.

NEGLIGENT CARE CAUSING PRESSURE SORES AND A FRACTURED HIP – FIVE FIGURE SETTLEMENT

Attwaters’ Medical Negligence team settled a claim on behalf of an Estate for a significant five figure settlement relating to pressure sores sustained by an elderly patient during a Hospital admission prior to her death. She also fell whilst in Hospital due to a failure to risk assess her and sustained a fractured hip.

NEGLECT OF ELDERLY PATIENTS – FIVE FIGURE SETTLEMENT

Attwaters’ Medical Negligence team settled two cases in which elderly clients suffered pressure sores, the settlements being five figure damages each, the settlements being at the very high end of such cases.