Case Study of Hayley Gascoigne

Hull Mum, Hayley Gascoigne collapsed and later died at a Hull court having recieved no treatment for four minutes after a paramedic arrived, was not immediately or accurately examined, and did not receive the intervention she should have, a damning report has found.

Hayley Gascoigne, at only 32 years of age, tragically died after suffering a cardiac arrest in the public waiting area at Hull Combined Court Centre on January 26.

Nick Gray, head of our Clinical Negligence Department at Williamsons, who is representing the family, who are from Scunthorpe, said: “The most important question to answer is if Hayley had been given appropriate emergency treatment, would she be alive and well today?

“The first paramedic on the scene, and the subsequent ambulance crew, failed to identify that Hayley had a ‘shockable’ heart rhythm. We shall argue that had she been given a shock to her heart via a defibrillator, a normal heart rhythm would have most probably been restored.

“Hayley’s family & myself are reassured that the critical question as to whether Hayley would have survived with alternative emergency treatment is to be one of the main issues at the forthcoming inquest”.