Sam Harmel secures finding of Neglect in an Inquest into the death of a patient at North Manchester General Hospital

Sam Harmel represented the family of a deceased patient at an Inquest into his death.  The patient died on 14^th April 2017 when he developed an anaphylactic response to the antibiotic Flucloxacillin given to him in hospital.   

The patient had previously displayed a reaction to the antibiotic hours before he died.  However, due to poor communication and a failure to remove Flucloxacillin from the prescription chart, he was given it again later that evening and suffered a myocardial infarction which led to his death. 

The Coroner concluded that the failures by the Hospital were gross basic failures to provide appropriate medical care and recorded a death of natural causes contributed to by neglect. 

Sam Harmel was instructed by Shahin Master or Irwin Mitchell Solicitors.