We have recently obtained a full admission of liability from the Defendant Trust in a clinical negligence claim arising from an overdose of cefepime, an antibiotic. The client was admitted to hospital with a suspected urinary tract infection and / or suspected respiratory infection which was not responding to multiple different antibiotics. It was decided… Read More »
The Background Earlier this year, Cambridge University Hospitals Trust (“CUH”) commissioned an external clinical review into the practice of Ms Kuldeep Stohr, a trauma and orthopaedic consultant specialising in the treatment of children, following concerns about her surgical outcomes. In parallel, the Trust Board initiated an independent investigation to determine whether there had been any… Read More »
If you are referred to a consultant for surgery in the NHS, can you insist that the consultant him or herself carries out the surgery rather than a more junior member of his / her team? This issue came up recently in a new clinical negligence claim we are investigating. Prior to the surgery being… Read More »