20 April 2015
Another shocking clinical negligence story as siblings are awarded £13 million compensation by the NHS after they were left severely disabled at birth by the same mistakes at the same hospital two years apart.
Both were left severely disabled after maternity staff at the hospital where they were both born, two years apart, made the same mistakes.
Natasha had suffered brain damage and would be left disabled after errors were made by medics at the former Sharoe Green Hospital in Preston. When Ms McKay became pregnant with her second child, she was reassured the same mistakes would not be repeated.
But the promise was an empty one. When Patrick was delivered at the same hospital, the same errors were made; him brain damaged and severely disabled like his older sister.
Ms McKay, from Leyland, near Preston, has been awarded £13 million in compensation, a £7 million care package for her daughter five years after a £6 million sum for her son’s lifelong care was agreed.
Wayne Walker, from our Clinical Negligence department, comments that “it is rare to have one claim for clinical negligence in any one family as the NHS does a fantastic job. But, as this case points out, it can be life changing for a family and in this case, it happened twice.”
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