Mum, 39, forced into life-changing hysterectomy after NHS gave wrong smear test results

Amie Wood, 39. Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust Apologises After Bewdley Mum Diagnosed With Cervical Ca (Image: Irwin Mitchell / SWNS)

A mum-of-two was diagnosed with cervical cancer aft bungling infirmary unit gave her the incorrect smear trial results. Amie Wood, 39, underwent a life-changing hysterectomy aft being diagnosed much than 2 years aft her effect was incorrectly recorded arsenic normal.

The teaching adjunct underwent a smear trial astatine a Wolverhampton hospital successful October 2019 - but the result was "misreported" by staff. Amie was diagnosed with cervical crab successful January 2022 and a consequent NHS audit recovered the smear effect had shown abnormal changes.

As a result, she contacted aesculapian negligence lawyers to instrumentality ineligible enactment against Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust. The Trust has since admitted a breach of work successful Amie’s attraction and apologised for giving her “incorrect” trial results.

The Trust accepted if the smear - which showed mean to terrible precocious people compartment changes - had been correctly reported, Amie would person been referred wrong weeks for excision treatment. This would person avoided the improvement of crab and the request for a hysterectomy.

After being diagnosed with cancer, she instructed lawyers to analyse her attraction nether the Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust. (Image: Irwin Mitchell / SWNS)

Amie, of Bewdley, Worcs., has present spoken of her choler and revealed for the archetypal clip astir the interaction crab has had connected her life. She said: "“Before the cancer, I’d ever struggled a spot with anxiousness implicit my health.

“Because of that, I ever made definite I went to each my appointments and ne'er had immoderate crushed to question the results I was fixed arsenic I had religion successful the medics. To beryllium diagnosed with cervical crab and acquisition a hysterectomy was heart-breaking capable but past I recovered retired that my smear results had been misreported and it could person each been avoided.

"To this day, I inactive conflict to comprehend everything I’ve been done and however adjacent my children could person been to losing their mum. It’s made my anxiousness and worries adjacent worse, which I didn’t deliberation was possible. It’s besides profoundly upsetting that the prime of having much children has been taken from me. At the aforesaid clip though, I cognize however fortunate I americium to inactive beryllium present and conscionable privation to fto radical cognize if you’re going done thing similar, determination is enactment retired there.”

Amie Wood had to person a hysterectomy pursuing her cervical crab diagnosis (Image: BBC)

Amie's archetypal smear results came backmost arsenic high-risk quality papillomavirus (HPV) Amie was advised to instrumentality for repetition screening successful 12 months’ time. Follow-up tests successful October 2020 and October 2021 recovered persisting HPV and Amie was referred for further probe including a colposcopy and biopsy.

After being diagnosed with cancer, she instructed lawyers astatine Irwin Mitchell to analyse her attraction nether the Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust. Through NHS Resolution, the Trust admitted liability and a breach of work successful care, successful that the effect fixed was “incorrect.”

It further admitted that had the illustration been correctly reported arsenic high-grade mean oregon terrible changes, Amie would person been referred for follow-up consultation and attraction wrong 2 to six weeks. Following her diagnosis, Amie, who is mum to daughters, underwent a hysterectomy which means she is not capable to person immoderate much children arsenic planned with her caller partner.

Kathryn Salt, the specializer aesculapian negligence lawyer astatine Irwin Mitchell representing Amie, said: “The past fewer years person been incredibly hard for Amie, having to travel to presumption with her diagnosis and past uncovering retired that it could person been avoided. Amie was understandably terrified to beryllium told she had invasive crab and underwent a hysterectomy astatine that constituent arsenic she couldn’t look the anticipation of the illness recurring oregon not being removed completely.

Amie is present acceptable for a immense payout to money her ongoing attraction and enactment (Image: Irwin Mitchell / SWNS)

"Since then, she’s besides suffered from accrued wellness anxiety. While thing tin marque up for the carnal and intelligence ordeal Amie has been through, we’re pleased that we’ve been capable to unafraid her the answers she deserves. Sadly, done our work, we proceed to spot the devastating effect crab has. We proceed to enactment Amie arsenic we enactment towards a colony which volition guarantee she tin entree the specializer enactment and therapies she requires. In the meantime it’s captious radical proceed to instrumentality portion successful the cervical crab screening programme. Early detection and attraction is cardinal to beating cancer.”

A spokesperson for The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust said: "We would similar to explicit our sincere regret and apologies to Ms Wood. The spot ever strives to present harmless and due attraction to each our patients. Sadly, connected this juncture we fell short. We are moving with Ms Wood's representatives to execute an due solution and volition guarantee each learnings from this lawsuit are taken forward."