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Leslie Ash Payout For MRSA

 
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mark occomore



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PostPosted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 10:49 am    Post subject: Leslie Ash Payout For MRSA Reply with quote

Leslie Ash is to receive a record £5million damages for the hospital superbug which wrecked her career.

The compensation deal - signed by her lawyers yesterday - is ten times the £500,000 she was initially reported to have been awarded.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/showbiz/showbiznews.html?in_article_id=508373&in_page_id=1773

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Thats a massive payout for the loss of earnings and compensation from the NHS Trust
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 11:18 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

As a taxpayer who ultimately picks up part of the tab for this I'd say it beggars belief, bearing in mind it was reported she was offered £250,000, wanted £1 million and was expected to get £500,000.

Bearing in mind the strange circumstances that put her in hospital to begin with (she got husband off assault charge by saying it was "energetic sex") and the fact that she'd already snookered herself, acting and earnings wise, by having private cosmetic surgery (which went wrong) on her lips, I can't imagine how they arrived at £5 million.

Perhaps she needs it for a new wardrobe. Her Judy Finnegan moment (the Mail's photo) makes me want to heave.
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 12:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I must admit that she doesn't seem to have much luck medically.

Ian.
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 1:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Shocked

"Cut down in her prime"?? who's fooling who here? she was pretty much washed up and that's possibly partly due to the rediculous surgery she had done on her lips.

This "award" makes me sick and we're having to pay for it.

I can just imagine the compensation panel listening to all the garbage from her lawyers and swallowing it all like a load of spineless jellyfish in this pc world we've created.

It's about time heads in the NHS were put under threat themselves to clean up our hospitals as other countries have ( is it Holland where MRSA is non existant due to British practices which were suggested and not taken up over here? )
Otherwise, we'll see plenty more crazy compensation claims which the tax payer will pick up. Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 19, 2008 2:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Whilst I sympathise and agree that she did deserve some compensation surely 5 million is way ott Shocked This is hardly going to help the NHS is it.
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 19, 2008 3:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

SantaFefan wrote:
Shocked

"Cut down in her prime"?? who's fooling who here? she was pretty much washed up and that's possibly partly due to the rediculous surgery she had done on her lips.

This "award" makes me sick and we're having to pay for it.

I can just imagine the compensation panel listening to all the garbage from her lawyers and swallowing it all like a load of spineless jellyfish in this pc world we've created.

It's about time heads in the NHS were put under threat themselves to clean up our hospitals as other countries have ( is it Holland where MRSA is non existant due to British practices which were suggested and not taken up over here? )
Otherwise, we'll see plenty more crazy compensation claims which the tax payer will pick up. Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad



Yeah, she deserves a little something, but all those crispies for what? What work? Macclesfield Pantomime playing an ugly Sturgeon in Cinderella, the odd MFI advert - showing off her glass baubles on QVC? Gimme a break.
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 19, 2008 6:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Laughing Laughing Laughing Excellent, Natasha!
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 9:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm not completely without sympathy for Miss Ash but £5 million could have paid the salaries of 250 nurses or 70 consultants for a year.

Ian.
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 1:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It was not MRSA, it was MSSA. (See link below) Maybe the Hospital trusts will be forced to clean up their acts now, I don't necessarily agree with the size of the payout but do feel that hospitals should be resposible for any illness contracted by any patient and directly attributable to the hospital.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7192605.stm

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