Posted inClinical negligence Issue 7
Material Contribution and PTSD
Leach v North East Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust [2020] EWHC 2914 (QB) The High Court applied material contribution causation principles to a case where distress over a delay in an ambulance arriving led the Claimant to develop Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (“PTSD”). The facts The Claimant suffered a sub-arachnoid haemorrhage…