I agree the nhs failed my husband if they had acted 2 years ago when he 1st went and they sent him for tests he would most probably be with me now and watching our grandchildren grow up, im going to look into medical negligence not for the money i couldnt care less about any monetary win but to make a statement the nhs failed my husband and our family
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Llw, if you are taking that route, don’t delay as there are strict timescales. Mary had a medical claim years ago and the solicitor let it run out of time in error. So we then had to sue that solicitor! Hopefully you have medical negligence insurance with house and/or buildings insurance. It’s frighteningly expensive taking that action. Ours ran up almost 100,000 in costs!
Good luck. Nigel xxxx
Hi Nigel, sorry for your loss,
Thank you for your message maybe im being naive i was going to look into a no win no fee solicitor? X
That is another option of course - either way you would need a greater than 50% chance of winning for them to take a case on, I think you may find. Just do watch timescales whichever way you go.
Thanks i will look into it yeah im sure it wont go anywhere if thats the case x
Certainly look into it. We did win, but only against the solicitors, not the clinic, and although I won another case where I sued, that was against a neighbour. The only ones I’ve not won were against the clinic and the hospital - at the same time. Quality of evidence is key!
Good luck. Nigel xxxx
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Thank you i will look into it
I just want to make them know they were negligent lee was seeing a nurse every week im so sad they didnt do more
Another day another night then start again tomorrow its too hard
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Just getting ready to watch the big game liverpool v psg .come on the reds.
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I promised my husband in the hospital to carry out the complaint, like you Im not doing it for the money.
Mark just wants the Urology Department to own up and apologise for doing nothing and to stop other families from having to go through this.
Win or lose its not going to bring him back to me and stop the pain in my heart.
I miss him everyday.
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Good you will sort it out for him.make sure you get a proper answer bloody nhs xx
Liw my husband was failed by hospital too he had echo in cardiology in March in spite of numerous phone calls was still waiting for results when he had his cardiac arrest i feel very bitter he maybe could have had a procedure or have been put on some medication i will never know now he could still be here now if had had proper treatment
Sorry for your loss bloody nhs .crap whhat can you say about nhs i feel like they let my wife down. X
When my husband was on the ward, the doctor from urology came to see him, he turned to us and sorry its the NHS’s fault he was lost in the system.
Like he was just a number to them.
What how the hell did say that it is nhs crap needs sorting out now
Crap nhs they let everyone done .did not look after my wife .xx
Not a lot different to what happened to my wife. 7 weeks for her. No chemo, just pain control. We were lied to continously. I got my local MSP involved. Got a full page spread in a couple of Edinburgh newspapers. Then I got a meeting with our local cancer team where they admitted numerous shortfalls in their treatment of my wife. I got grovelling apologies and promises to change procedures. My MSP is still following it up. I spoke to a fellow widower whose wife died from cancer due to NHS negligence in Glasgow. He has lost all his savings and more trying to sue them and has got nowhere. He advised me not to try and win compensation because they’ll wheel out the big guns and bankrupt you with delaying tactics. I have achieved what my wife wanted me to in raising awareness of their incompetence locally and hopefully nobody else will have to suffer needlessly like my wife did. That’s all she wanted. Neither of us wanted any financial gain.
Believe you me, I was warned away from it by someone who lost nearly everything. It’s not worth losing so much over. My wife had savings, and she warned me not to blow them on taking the NHS to court. I achieved awareness in other ways. Talk to your local MP, they’re not all useless.
Yes as i said nhs is awful. They let my wife .they said were were gojng to give her a fistula in her arm .which never came off .so she got worse and worse .her kidneys then packed in .xx heartbreaking…x
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Do what I did. I raised an official complaint, they’ll have a team just for that. Then talk to your local MP. As stated by someone else here, quality of evidence is key. I was lucky in that I had kept scrupulous records of everything that happened during my wife’s battle with cancer. I wrote everything down and then sent whatsapp messages of these notes to close family so it was also in digital form. Faced with all that my local NHS caved in and admitted that they had made multiple errors. That’s all both my wife and I wanted. It won’t bring her back but it took a lot of guilt from my shoulders.
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What you guilty for NHS are wrong not you .they said she is not resdy for fistula her number was not low enough. Crap still will not bring her back . I told my bereavement councillor she said let it go .