A woman has won compensation of more than £4 million for gross clinical negligence after incorrect diagnosis failed to detect a brain haemorrhage.

The woman, who collapsed with a headache caused by the brain haemorrhage, was told that it was caused by a virus; she then late suffered a second more serious haemorrhage.

After the second haemorrhage she needed life-saving surgery at Newcastle General Hospital in which half a litre of blood was drained from her brain.

Unfortunately the lady suffered permanent brain damage as a result and now can not remember anything for more than ten minutes.

The woman’s father has since died, and her husband described telling her of the bereavement as "the saddest thing I have had to do in my whole life.

"Naturally she was completely devastated but an hour later she had no idea.

"I had to tell her 10 or 15 times over the next three or four days and you knew every time you told her how much it would break her heart."

Round the clock care is now needed for the woman who was described by her husband as being like "a 10-year-old child with Alzheimer's".

He successfully won a gross clinical negligence compensation claim against his wife’s GP, Dr James Harrison of Chevely Park Medical Centre in Durham, the Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Trust and the Durham and Darlington Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.

The GP an the two hospital trusts have apologised for their failings.

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