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  Premature Hospital Discharge Compensation Awarded in High Court
  Posted on June 29, 2012 by medical
  A woman, who was released from hospital just eight hours after being admitted with a broken pelvis, has won a High Court hearing and been awarded with 35,000 pounds in premature hospital discharge compensation.
  Lydia Eaton (102) from Wigmore, Kent, sued the Medway NHS Trust through her daughter after she lost the ability to walk independently following the incident in March 2007. Lydia, who had broken her pelvis in a fall near her home, was taken to the A&E Department of Medway Maritime Hospital in Gillingham but discharged after only eight hours and provided with a prescription for painkillers.
  Lydia´s condition deteriorated after she went home and, as her mobility worsened, started to develop sores and ulcers. Her family, it was claimed at London´s High Court, received no guidance on how to deal with Lydia´s condition or support from the hospital, and the following month Lydia was moved into a nursing home.
  Judge Sweeney at the High Court heard solicitors representing Lydia contend that Lydia would still be living independently and able to walk had it not been for the negligence of hospital doctors at the Medway Maritime Hospital and they advised the judge that, since the claim for premature hospital discharge compensation had been made, Lydia had been forced to move into another – more expensive – nursing home where a higher level of care could be provided.
  Finding in favour of Lydia, Judge Sweeney agreed that the hospital had indeed been negligent in prematurely releasing Lydia from hospital – a situation which had directly resulted in the worsening of her condition. The judge awarded Lydia 35,000 pounds in medical negligence compensation and ordered that it be placed in a trust fund to pay for Lydia´s care.
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