Articles by ‘Kerstin Scheel’

Kerstin Scheel, Partner in the Medical Negligence Team, represented our client, BS, who received £600,000 in compensation after a negligent failure to diagnose his cleft soft palate during infancy, which delayed the treatment and…

In this article, Clinical Negligence Partner, Kerstin Scheel, takes us through the Perinatal Mortality Review Tool and the investigations that hospital Trusts do on the death of a newborn or the death of a…

The MNSI (Maternity & Newborn Safety Investigations) body has published its annual report for 2024/2025; this provides an overview of their programme during this period and outlines its plans for the following year. MNSI…

In September 2025, MBRRACE-UK (Mothers and Babies: Reducing Risk through Audits and Confidential Enquiries into Maternal Deaths and Morbidity 2021-23) published its twelfth annual report of the Confidential Enquiries into Maternal Deaths and Morbidity….

I represented a teenage female claimant, Mary*, (born in 2010) in a clinical negligence claim against a hospital Trust for negligent failure to diagnose her hip dysplasia in the newborn period. Mary received significant…

Access to and enjoyment of sport is taken for granted by most children, they are surrounded by opportunities both in and out of school. But for children with physical disabilities this isn’t always the…

There has been much invested into the development of a maternal vaccine relating to GBS (Group B Strep). Group B Strep is a common type of bacteria, in most cases is harmless, however in…