by Clear Law | Jan 17, 2017 | Hospital Negligence, News, No Fee Medical
Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust has been fined £500,000 and ordered to pay costs of over £35,000 after the deaths of 4 patients were found to be a result of careless and unnecessary failings. The Health and Safety Executive investigated the deaths of 4 patients...
by Clear Law | Jan 10, 2017 | News
A national care home provider along with one of its employees have been prosecuted after a young woman who resided in one of their homes was left with full thickness burns to 40% of her body after she was immersed into a scalding bath. Nicola Jones, a resident of the...
by Clear Law | Jan 4, 2017 | News
A healthcare firm and its managing director have between them been fined over £200,000 and ordered to pay costs of £136,000 after the death of one of the residents in its care. Luton Crown Court heard how May Ward, a 100 year-old resident died as a result of injuries...
by Clear Law | Dec 19, 2016 | Hospital Negligence, News
The Royal United hospital (Bath) NHS Foundation Trust has been fined £200,000 after a patient fell to his death from the window in his room. Bristol Crown Court heard how an in-patient on the hospital’s Haygarth Ward had become confused during his stay at the facility...
by Clear Law | Dec 12, 2016 | Hospital Negligence, News
An NHS Foundation Trust has been fined £366,000 after a patient was found dead on one of its specialist dementia wards. Mrs Joan Darnell, a 78 year-old lady from Norfolk who suffered from dementia had been admitted to the Julian hospital at the end of September 2014,...
by Clear Law | Dec 6, 2016 | Hospital Negligence, News
Shropshire Council has been fined £25,000 and ordered to pay costs of nearly £40,000 after a vulnerable man choked to death while in the care of one of the Council’s day centres. Shrewsbury Crown Court heard how Michael Breeze, aged 53, who suffered from learning...
