BELL (A PROTECTED PARTY SUING BY HER STEPFATHER AND LITIGATION FRIEND URSELL) v BEDFORD HOSPITAL NHS TRUST

[2020] Med LR Plus 1

QUEEN’S BENCH DIVISION

Before Her Honour Judge Deborah Taylor (Sitting as a Judge of the High Court)

Clinical negligence - Failure to diagnose transient ischaemic attacks and the possibility of stroke - Whether defendant in breach of duty - Whether subsequent major stroke was caused by atherosclerosis amenable to medication - Whether claimant would have been compliant with such treatment - If so whether such treatment would have prevented the major stroke from occurring