Legal victory for woman given cold shoulder by medical staff
A leading North East lawyer has won a legal victory for a Sunderland woman whose badly-fractured shoulder was ignored by medical staff, who sent her home telling her to ‘exercise it’. The South of Tyne and Wear NHS Trust has admitted liability for errors made in the treatment of June Thompson, who suspected she had broken her shoulder after she tripped and fell over a step at her friend’s house in October 2009. She attended the Grindon Lane Primary Care Centre where she was examined by a nurse – despite Mrs Thompson’s insistence that the joint was broken, she was sent home wearing a sling,
