UK – Mother sues NHS for £200,000 claiming hospital failed to inform her of son’s Down’s Syndrome diagnosis

Mother sues NHS for £200,000 claiming hospital failed to inform her of son's Down's Syndrome diagnosis

Telegraph Reporters
8 July 2019

Hospital notes show that a mother shouldn't receive £200,000 in damages from the NHS for having child with Down's Syndrome because she declined to have him tested before he was born, a court heard.

Edyta Mordel, 33, is claiming hospital staff failed to do the antenatal tests she wanted, which would have revealed that she was carrying a disabled child.

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