CG v Royal Devon & Exeter NHS Foundation Trust
A Devon
woman has secured £30,000 damages to reflect a missed lung cancer at her local
hospital. When she presented at the
RD&E in March 2009 with chest pains, a number of investigations including
x-rays were performed and she was discharged.
When she returned two years later with similar pains, the older x-rays were
looked at again and it was realised that these showed shadowing on the lung,
clearly indicating an early cancer. Her
life expectancy is severely reduced as a result.
During
the legal claim brought by Tozers LLP’s Exeter office, the hospital swiftly recognised
that the cancer had been overlooked but argued that, even two years previously,
the outcome would have been the same anyway. Both sides commissioned expert
oncology opinion which came to opposing conclusions on this. The matter was therefore compromised for
£30,000, representing the risks faced by both sides.
source: www.tozers.co.uk
