Mrs Abson-Hicks Story

Mrs Abson-Hicks witnessed her husband’s sudden deterioration and death on 11 October 2015.

From this day she has known that there are serious questions to be answered by Hull & East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust and Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust regarding the treatment he received.  In particular, why he was not transferred to Castle Hill Hospital for urgent life-saving treatment (percutaneous coronary intervention) despite meeting the criteria for this.  A Serious Incident investigation was commenced shortly after his death by both NHS Trusts, but many of her questions still remain unanswered. To find out this information and secure her future financial stability, she asked Nick Gray of Williamsons  Solicitors to help her.

After independent investigation, a detailed letter was sent to both NHS Trusts at the end of November 2016 with evidence of the alleged sub-standard care provided to Mr Hicks and an explanation as to why he would have probably survived, had his care been reasonable.  The NHS Trusts should have provided a detailed response to this letter by the end of March 2016; they failed to do so.  No reasonable explanation has yet been given as to why this can’t be done.

As a result of this failure, Mrs Abson-Hicks recently started Court proceedings in the High Court, London.  It’s a real shame that no level of compassion can be shown by either NHS Trust to a lady who has had to go through such a difficult ordeal over the last year.  This is now preventing her from moving on with her life and making any future plans.  Is this how we should deal with individuals who find themselves, through no fault of their own, in such situations?  Mrs Abson-Hicks described her current feelings as “very lost, very upset and extremely angry”.  She went on to say: “This should not have happened, they let my husband down and now their solicitors are doing the same to me.  Don’t they care?”