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Leshlie Ash gets £5m compensation from NHS
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clickyActress Leslie Ash has won a record £5 million payout - well in excess of the £500,000 Ash was initially reported to have been awarded - after nearly dying from a superbug infection.
Her lawyers said the former Men Behaving Badly star was “delighted” with the huge lump sum agreement.
It does not include £250,000 in legal fees for the cost of the lawsuit.
Well done Leslie. Your suffering is certainly worth all that. Shame they wouldn't give you £50m, the tight fisted bastards eh? :rolleyes:
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Not to mention that her explanation for having to go to hospital in the first place is not a very likely story. Perhaps she should be suing her husband...
There is something obscene and deeply wrong about the amount awarded, I'm sorry. Specially when you get people infected by HIV during a transfusion receiving low five-figure sums.
So it kind of was a self inflicted injury.
However people getting secondary infections whilst in hospital is a very serious issue which needs to be addressed, but maybe there should be some kind of cap on how much people can get in compensation. OK so she has lost out on earning but maybe these should be capped at the average national wage - which would mean she would get closer to a £1million - which is still a mighty whack.
Then the extra 4 million could go to be a drop in the ocean towards making hosptial's safer places to be.
As the story says, the biggest component in most compensation cases is for loss of earnings. If you begin to compare it to what insurance companies would pay out in case of accidental injury it starts to look more reasonable.
So yeah, rightly or wrongly, it sticks in my craw, I don't give a shit about how limited her choices are now... they've always been pretty limited by her lack of acting skills and - more recently - her hideous trout pout that made her the laughing stock of the "celebrity" world.
How can they afford to pay her that when they can't even afford to pay staff?! Now I know why my NHS bursery is so low :crying: bloody Leslie Ash and her MRSA.
When have NHS staff even not been paid?
It is, regardless of whatever he earning potential is.
I'm alos curious how she managed to prove negligence for infection when either she or a visitor could have brought it in themselves...
So I think £5 million is way too much.
same here - especially as ~30% of the population carry MSSA anyway and it is not screened for routinely like MRSA - both of which can cause wound infections, joint infections, bone infections and septicaemia - theyre the same bacteria ffs just one is more difficult to treat (though not impossible)
she must have had a very strong case for negligence - lots of evidence, paper wok etc etc to prove the hospital did something wrong - which isnt out the realms of possibility BUT
£5m you must be fucking kidding, loss of earning my arse, shes probably raked in at least that much through all the pointless disinfectant products she has endorsed since and all the crappy magazine articles shes done which have all been disinformative and unhelpful.
i wonder how much of her compensation (and earnings) will be used to help other MSSA sufferrers? :shocking: *grr*
and THIS is whats so fucking annoying - she didnt even have MRSA
How much of that should be considered unavoidable risk when going into hospital for treatment though - people are covered in bacteria and there is an unavoidable chance that those bacteria may cause an infection - thats not to say hospitals dont do wrong and arent up to the proper standards but i think it all too often gets forgotten that there is this risk.
I got at least 4 wound infections following surgery that were most likely caused by the nurses doing the dressings not being familiar with wound management, and the infections definitely slowed the progress of the healing (bearing in mind I couldn't work until it was healed) by about a week each, because they only got noticed when the dressings were done by someone who knew their stuff.
It's a lot of money, but I hope it makes the point to the NHS trusts loud and clear that attention to detail is vitally important.
It is, and in that respect I agree completely with you. Why should someone who already has enough money to live comfortably need that much more? But, it'll be paid for by the insurers who will hopefully tell the NHS to pull their fingers out and do something to prevent more claims.
Hygiene and cleaniness have improved enormously in recent times. I don't know what the circumstances of this particular case might have been but if a ward/room is clean enough and the staff all follow procedure then it is not the hospital fault if somebody catches an infection. Some things simply can't be helped.
Perhaps the NHS should ban all visitors from ever entering a hospital again. I bet that would get rid of most infection cases.
£5m seems a lot, though, especially as I would guess her future earnings were limited. As an actress she was in her earlty 40's and she never struck me as Judi Dench or Helen Mirren who can continue when they're getting on, but more a bit of eye candy who's career more or less ends when they hit 40.
She did she caught a strain of the MRSA virus, thats why it took her so long to recover.
she did not have MRSA
she had a Staphylococcus aureus infection.
i just cant figure how and why they could justify paying this much for this case - obviously i dont know the ins and outs of it but there are loads of people every year whos lives are effected by infections and they dont get anywhere near this amount of compensation.
loss of earnings doesnt seem to justify it either.
wtf
Still, I'm sure her and her fuckwit ex-Leeds husband will be rolling around in all the cash. It makes you sick to the stomach. Kids who are left with permanent brain damage because of mistakes during childbirth get less. She should be fucking ashamed of herself.
Mind, I always thought that her and her dirty cheat of a husband were both two money-grabbing little cunts.
I'm not defending her if she is a money grabbing so and so, but none of us know what actually happened, for the trust to roll over and pay out that much suggests there may have been an almighty cock up which they would like to play down....
Should she get less, or should others who have been harmed in some more damaging way through negligence get more?