to be upset that Leslie Ash has been awarded £500,000 compensation

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for catching MRSA in hospital, when my mother was awarded £8,000 for a botched cataract operation.

yeah, that's it, i'm worried she'll get a more severe case because she'll have contracted it from her sister rather than from the community the way dd1 did (nursery).

anyhow expat - was going to get off here 20 minutes ago to do an hours blitz before DH comes in........so I can relax for the rest of the night.....I'm now down to 40 minutes (max) so I'll see you later

see ya!

was ash in a private hospital?

does anyone know?

perhaps I wasn't clear - DS2 wasn't as bad as DS1 - even though DS1 got it first

Though DS2 did scare the hell out of me as his last spot crusted over the day I had a show with DS3......the day before he arrived !

She was treated at the Chelsea and Westminster - whether as a private patient I don't know though.

She would not have got more £££ because she was private (if indeed she was). The amount is decided on the nature of the injury, duration of pain etc as well as potential lost earnings. IME as a lawyer doing this type of work, private hospitals fight as keenly as the next man to keep damages down.

Poor woman - wouldn't wish her situation on anyone.

How can they base future earnings of a child on their parents' jobs? My cousin now has her own production company after writing as a freelance journalist and had aticles in the papers. She has had programmes on the tv and went to Cambridge uni. He mother and father weren't anything like that. You just can't predict imo.

My father had an accident when he was 20, dived into a river (him and his friends were all doing it) and hit his neck on a rock, paralysed from the neck down ever since. My mum was pregnant with me at the time. The ambulence men allowed his "friends" to carry him on the stretcher and they dropped him a couple of times. This probably made his injury worse, he may have walked again before that.

He got nothing and the "friends" dropped him too.

That's awful Jodie . Re Leslie Ash I bet she'd rather have her health than £500k. It does have to last her the rest of her life if she's unlikely to work again.

i always thuoght a child's compensation level was based on the amount of care they would need, at what cost, and horrifyingly, their life expectancy. that's the really nasty part of going to court for compensation for a child, having doctors predict how long left your child has.

not my direct experience, have to add, my brother and SIL

don't begrudge LA for her compo, she probably pitched up in hospital in a lot of pain and wasn't really in a position to do a risk assessment at the time.

LA was in a NHS hospital I beleive. Her sister has openly said in the press taht Lee Chapman is a thug and a bully and that LA should leave. This has caused a rift and LA no longer talks to her sis

My dh used to work for LA and LC and without saying too much in writing, He was not nice.

I think LA was in the Chelsea & Westminster

here is the story

I suspect that they base a child's future earnings on parents as, at the moment, social mobility is not really happening so much. There were stats on that programme the other night - the one about how much people in Britain earns. Aaparently the majority of people in their 30s these days are earnign the same kind of level as their parents were at the same age.

My goodness, she was seriously ill because of something she contracted in hospital, of course she deserves compensation, does she not have to now walk with a stick etc?

I saw her on something a while ago and was shocked at how badly she was affected.

Compnesation is not comparative, each person is awarded on the individual merits of their case.

My Dad didn't earn what I was when he was 35 - probably a bit later for him. He often tells us that he was able to get married when he earned £900 a year. Mind this was over 40 years ago!!

I think the whole social mobility takes into account inflation rates. It looks at the occupation/salalry levels, rather than exact amounts.

I suppose there is some correlation between qualifications and earning potential but there's always one millionaire who left school with no exams. Equally where I work there is a Prof. of History who has chosen to work in what could be considered a menial type of job (albeit very important). I wonder sometimes if he's earning more than he did in academia .

acc to the Metro this morning a man who was injured in Afghanistan will get up to £285,000 in a lump sum (he lives in Doncaster and apparently this won't buy a home for him with special adaptations)

(forgot to add - he lost BOTH of his legs)

They only count the first one though I think. Several people injured in the July 07 bombings had their 'lesser' injuries discounted for the purposes of calculating compensation.

To be fair I'd have thought that amount was plenty enough for a home in Doncaster! Prices are not that high there.

However, like almost all compensation cases no amount would ever really be enough.

i will probabally regret saying this but surely when you join the armed forces you are aware that there is a risk that you will be injured or killed - not that i'm saying you shouldn't recieve some kind of money because it has happened.

i don't know much about the Leslie Ash case but if she caught MRSA she should recieve compensation