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NHS hospitals in Greater Manchester have paid out more than £181m in damages over cerebral palsy claims in the last 11 years. The figures come as one of the region’s hospital trusts will pay out nearly £30m after ‘accepting their negligence led to a baby girl suffering catastrophic injuries’ in court last week, according to a family’s lawyers.
The £30m case against Stockport NHS Foundation Trust is the ‘second largest settlement the NHS has ever made in a medical negligence case’, it is claimed. The baby girl was born ‘seemingly healthy’, said the legal representatives, but ‘shortly after birth there were signs that she was in distress’.
Due to a ‘series of negligent omissions in her postnatal care and ultimately the delay in performing surgery, she sustained catastrophic and life-changing injuries in the form of cerebral palsy’, the legal representatives for the baby girl and her family claim. The hospital trust has expressed its ‘sincere apologies’ to the family.
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With no cure, cerebral palsy is a lifelong condition that affects movement and co-ordination. Those living with the condition may face movement, walking and speech difficulties, learning disabilities, cognitive impairments, hearing or vision loss, epilepsy, spinal deformities, and joint problems – requiring ongoing physiotherapy, speech therapy, occupational therapy and medication.
Neil Clayton, medical negligence partner at Lime Solicitors, said: “One of the main causes of cerebral palsy is hypoxic brain injury during childbirth, which is where a baby’s brain gets starved of oxygen. Sometimes, this cannot be prevented
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