Compensation awarded to teenager after hospital blunders
- Title
- Compensation awarded to teenager after hospital blunders
- Genre
- News report; Interview; Press conference
- TX Date
- 24 Oct 1988
- Year of production
- 1988
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- Duration
- 00:01:55
- Description
- Simon Israel reports on the case of Malinka Head, a teenage girl who’s been left with a mental age of six months after a series of hospital errors. She has been awarded £800,000 damages following a a seven year battle by her parents (William and Nicola Head) against the East Anglian Regional Health Authority and the Cambridge and Huntingdon health authorities for justice and compensation. Includes statements by Nicola Head; Howard Weston, legal advisor for East An glian Regional Health Authority.
- Contributors
- Simon Israel; Nicola Head; Howard Weston
- Keywords
- NHS; Adolescents; Health authorities; Compensation; Disabled persons; Justice; Huntingdon; Cambridge; Malinka Head; William Head; East Anglian Regional Health Authority
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