Greater Manchester hospitals paid out more than £181m to families as 'time and again, the same mistakes are made'
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manchestereveningnews.co.ukNHS hospitals in Greater Manchester have paid out more than £181m in damages over cerebral palsy claims in the last 11 years.
The figures come as one of the region’s hospital trusts will pay out nearly £30m after ‘accepting their negligence led to a baby girl suffering catastrophic injuries’ in court last week, according to a family’s lawyers.
The £30m case against Stockport NHS Foundation Trust is the ‘second largest settlement the NHS has ever made in a medical negligence case’, it is claimed.
The baby girl was born ‘seemingly healthy’, said the legal representatives, but ‘shortly after birth there were signs that she was in distress’.
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