NHS pays more than {pound}17m in birth inȷuries case

The NHS has agreed to pay compensation totalling more than £17m for birth injuries which have left a 19 year old man with cerebral palsy and cognitive impairment.1The man, who has an anonymity order protecting his identity but is known as XX, was born in 2004 at the Royal London Hospital, part of Barts Health NHS Trust. He sustained a severe hypoxic brain injury shortly before he was delivered by emergency caesarean section after his mother’s uterus ruptured.The trust has agreed to the settlement without admitting negligence and no findings of fact have been made, noted deputy high court judge Dexter Dias KC. XX’s mother claimed that his injuries were caused by negligence in the antenatal period when she was being advised on the mode of delivery, and during the delivery itself.Dias agreed with the trust’s counsel that the case was “remarkable.” XX has quadriplegic athetoid cerebral palsy with dyskinetic…
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