{"id":85183,"date":"2026-02-19T09:08:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T09:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=85183"},"modified":"2026-02-19T09:08:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T09:08:11","slug":"children-can-claim-damages-for-lost-years-after-medical-negligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/02\/19\/children-can-claim-damages-for-lost-years-after-medical-negligence\/","title":{"rendered":"Children can claim damages for &#8216;lost years&#8217; after medical negligence"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1APWd5.img?w=534&amp;h=418&amp;m=6\" alt=\"The decision stems from a case involving an 11-year-old girl, known only as CCC, who sued Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in 2020 (PA)\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Children can now claim damages for the years of life lost due to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/home-news\/nhs-clincial-negligence-sue-government-b2910445.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">medical negligence<\/a>, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/politics\/trans-supreme-court-ehrc-high-court-b2919874.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">Supreme Court\u00a0<\/a>has ruled, overturning a legal precedent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/children-can-claim-damages-for-lost-years-after-medical-negligence\/ar-AA1WBAZa?ocid=winp2fptaskbar&amp;cvid=64cf5d4dd0f44938b09e50b0a69ae46e&amp;ei=32&amp;cvpid=6996c7e0e4ed44b0ae157822e7099ca1\">Read d More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Children can now claim damages for the years of life lost due to\u00a0medical negligence, the\u00a0Supreme Court\u00a0has ruled, overturning a legal precedent Read&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21445,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-85183","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/law-stories.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85184,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85183\/revisions\/85184"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}