Schoolboy’s case highlights medical negligence claims
Clinical negligence can have incisive consequences and bringinto a dramatic cut in the quality of person’s life. Just take the case of Hayden Aspin, 11, who had a splint inserted at the Royal Oldham Hospital to correct bilateral dislocatable hips, a problem he had since birth.
The operation was likely to adjust thebad situation and ifall that had gone to plan he would have suffered no after effects.Unfortunately, his hips were decline in the wrong position and because this wasn’t spotted at the time, Hayden has beengone out with one leg longer than the other, afaltering walk and movement problem.
Clearly theproblem should have been picked up, but weekly x-rays to monitor the position of the splint and Hayden’s progress were not carried out. According to his mother, Lara, this was because the hospital could not produce it. Regardless of the reasonbehind the failing, the Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust accepted clinical negligence back in October 2007. Thesituation has been in the news once again after the conformity of liability was authorized by a court. Hayden’s legal team and the Trust are now trying to agree on a settlement figure.
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