Hospital Infection Claims

A claim in damages arising out of substandard clinical care whilst the patient underwent vascular surgery in the First Defendant’s Hospital, before being transferred into community care at home with the Second Defendant’s community nurses, and then into the care of the Third Defendant’s Hospital. As a result, the patient suffered grade 4 pressure sores to sacrum and feet.

The claimant brought a claim for clinical negligence following delayed diagnosis of a drain infection after a kidney transplant.