{"id":1428,"date":"2019-06-04T14:57:47","date_gmt":"2019-06-04T13:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1428"},"modified":"2021-02-23T13:51:03","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T13:51:03","slug":"surgical-error-leaves-woman-infertile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/surgical-error-leaves-woman-infertile\/","title":{"rendered":"Surgical Error Leaves Woman Infertile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As recently reported by the BBC, surgeons at Walsall Manor Hospital have destroyed a woman&#8217;s chances of having further children by removing the wrong fallopian tube.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsie Thomas was suffering with an ectopic pregnancy, where a fertilised egg had become stuck in her right fallopian tube instead of moving into the womb.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, an error was made during the procedure to resolve the ectopic pregnancy and her healthy left fallopian tube was incorrectly removed instead of the right one.<\/p>\n<p>Such an incident would be described by the NHS as a \u2018never event\u2019 because, put simply, this sort of mistake should never occur.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Thomas has been left infertile.<\/p>\n<p>Speak to a solicitor<\/p>\n<p>If you or a loved one are suffering the long-term impact of a significant failing in medical care, contact Glynns Solicitors today to discuss your experience with a specialist medical negligence solicitor.<\/p>\n<p>It might be appropriate to make a claim for compensation.<\/p>\n<p>Please call us on <a href=\"tel:0800 234 3300\">0800 234 3300<\/a> (or from a mobile <a href=\"tel:01275 334030\">01275 334030<\/a>) or complete our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/free-claim-enquiry-mn.php\"><strong>Online Enquiry Form<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/free-claim-enquiry-mn.php\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/images\/FreeClaims-top.gif\" alt=\"Free enquiry\" width=\"199\" height=\"74\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As recently reported by the BBC, surgeons at Walsall Manor Hospital have destroyed a woman&#8217;s chances of having further children by removing the wrong fallopian tube. Chelsie Thomas was suffering with an ectopic pregnancy, where a fertilised egg had become stuck in her right fallopian tube instead of moving into the womb. Unfortunately, an error [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1267],"tags":[1335,1408],"class_list":["post-1428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surgery-negligence","tag-incorrect-surgery","tag-nhs-never-event"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1428"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1430,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428\/revisions\/1430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}