Stroke Negligence

• Stroke Awareness Month – May 2025

  • PostedMay 6, 2025

  According to the Stroke Association, every day in May, 240 people in the UK will wake up to the life-changing impact of a stroke. This is a shocking statistic and,...

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• Ashtons Legal secure multi-million pound settlement for victim of avoidable brain stem stroke

  • PostedNovember 14, 2023

  Ms K, a 29-year-old woman at the time of her injury, attended A&E after her mum noticed that she was suffering from facial drooping, slurred speech and right-side weakness. She...

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• Woman dies from stroke after being given wrong medication

  • PostedFebruary 28, 2020

  Heather Planner, 87, of Buckinghamshire, died from a stroke after being accidentally given another patient’s medication. Mrs Planner had been prescribed apixaban, a blood-thinning medicine. However when she went to...

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• World Stroke Day – do you know the signs to look out for?

  • PostedOctober 29, 2019

  October 29 is World Stroke Day – a campaign which aims to raise awareness of strokes in order to reduce the number of people who suffer as a result of...

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• £1 million obtained for man who suffered a stroke following negligent care

  • PostedOctober 29, 2019

  Tom Cook, a consultant solicitor within the medical negligence team at Ashtons Legal, has obtained in excess of £1 million for a man who suffered a stroke that left him...

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