Childless Couple Win Compensation Claim against NHS

Author: Dan
• Monday, January 31st, 2011
A couple desperate to have a child, have received an undisclosed amount of medical negligence compensation, following a hospital blunder.

The Bootle Times is reporting that Gillian Hanlon from Bootle, in Merseyside, underwent surgery a few months after suffering a miscarriage, for the gynaecological condition known as endometriosis, after doctors told her it could improve her chances of conceiving.

However during the operation Mrs. Hanlon’s surgeon also removed her fallopian tubes without her prior consent.

Gillian and her husband Peter who are both thirty two and have been married for six years, said that their lives had been ruined by the procedure, with Gillian adding that the likelihood of her conceiving had been made worse, by an operation intended to improve her chances of having a baby.

Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust have apologised to the couple for the distress caused and paid an undisclosed amount of compensation for the error, which the couple intend to use for further IVF treatment or possibly an egg donation.

A spokesperson for the NHS Trust stated that the trust was reviewing its policies and procedures regarding consent.



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