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Liability trial in a clinical negligence claim. The court found the missed ECG monitoring caused a failure to diagnose paroxysmal atrial fibrillation and the claimant’s stroke.
Dakin v South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust [2026] EWCC 26 (12 May 2026)
The court held that an admitted failure to arrange ECG monitoring caused a delayed AF diagnosis, anticoagulation was missed, and the claimant’s stroke was due to that breach.
Clinical negligence claim over failure to give Heparin after an embolic leg event; the court found the omission caused the Claimant’s later stroke.
Phoebe Charmaine Pickering v Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust [2022] EWHC 1171 (QB) (17 May 2022)
Clinical negligence trial on whether delayed Heparin would have prevented a stroke. The court found breach of duty but held causation was not proved.
Watson v Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust [2022] EWHC 148 (QB) (26 January 2022)
The High Court held that the claimant’s March 2015 symptoms were sporadic hemiplegic migraine, not TIAs, so aspirin causation was not proved and the claim failed.
Clinical negligence trial on causation. The court held the claimant’s March 2015 symptoms were sporadic hemiplegic migraine, not TIA, and dismissed the claim.
Bell v Bedford Hospital NHS Trust (Rev 1) [2019] EWHC 2704 (QB) (14 October 2019)
Clinical negligence claim over missed TIA diagnosis failed on causation: the court found breach of duty, but held the claimant had not proved the stroke would have been avoided.
Bell v Bedford Hospital NHS Trust (Rev 1) [2019] EWHC 2704 (QB) (14 October 2019)
Clinical negligence claim over missed TIA diagnosis. The court found a breach in failing to keep TIA under review, but dismissed the claim on causation.
Sims v MacLennan [2015] EWHC 2739 (QB) (09 October 2015)
A medical negligence claim failed where the court found the defendant GP had advised the deceased to see his doctor about raised blood pressure, and causation was not proved.
The High Court held that a road traffic accident probably caused the claimant’s stroke, accepting expert evidence that causation was proved on the balance of probabilities.
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