'600,000 Settlement For Man Following Poor Medical Advice Which Led To Extensive Hip Surgery

• Published date: 31 July 2020
• Subject Matter: Litigation, Mediation & Arbitration, Trials & Appeals & Compensation, Personal Injury, Professional Negligence
• Law Firm: Leigh Day
• Author: Leigh Day

A man, aged 65 known only as T to protect his identity, has settled his clinical negligence claim against the St Cross Hospital in Rugby after he underwent a number of hip procedures, and also suffered a perforated bowel that could have been avoided.

T originally underwent a right hip resurfacing operation in September 2011 but then needed surgery in October 2011 to rectify a loose screw in the prosthesis, in January 2012 to insert a wire to rectify a detached muscle, and in September 2012 to remove the wire.

> He then needed a total hip replacement in July 2014 after which he was diagnosed with a perforated bowel for which he needed more surgery and which was delayed for nearly two weeks.

T instructed medical negligence solicitor Despina Kavadas to act for him in a compensation claim. The NHS Litigation Authority (NHSLA - now called NHSR) admitted that the surgery to repair T's perforated bowel should have been carried out sooner, but denied that there was any negligence around the other operations T had undergone and which culminated in a hip replacement.

Despina obtained expert evidence reports from an orthopaedic surgeon and general surgeon and served a Letter of Claim. T was offered '250,000 to settle his claim with the hospital admitting that if T had been properly informed about the risks associated with hip resurfacing he would have chosen a conventional hip replacement and...