A 20-year-old woman suffered a cardiac arrest and has been left with brain damage following an endoscopy in hospital.
Alder Hey Childrens NHS Foundation Trust accepted liability for causing the cardiac arrest and brain damage to a now 20-year-old woman, who was a child at the time. The claimant, who has been kept anonymous and is referred to as NW, appeared at Manchester Civil Justice Centre on Monday, September 5.
The claimant lacked the mental capacity, meaning that she was accompanied by her dad and litigation friend, who have also been given anonymity. NW claimed that she had been left with a "catastrophic" brain injury sustained as a result of an endoscopy more than four and a half years ago on January 30, 2017, at Alder Hey.
