Cauda Equina — Trust not liable: Bryce v Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS FT (Newcastle County Court, 22/08/2012 — Judge Walton)

摘要

In October 2004 the claimant, who was then in her early 30s, was diagnosed as having cervical cancer. This required a radical hysterectomy. In January 2005 she complained of low back pain and a year later, increasingly severe pain in the right thigh and knee. A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan was arranged at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Gateshead to investigate whether she had any recurrence of the cancer. Fortunately that was excluded. An oncologist, Dr Verleye, wrote to her general practitioner to this effect in February 2006 and advised that she be referred to a neurologist in relation to the leg pain.