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Briony Ballard represented Hampshire Primary Care Trust and Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust in a recent inquest into the deaths of ten elderly patients at Gosport War Memorial Hospital between 1996 and 1999. The families of the patients involved were concerned that the deaths of their elderly relatives were unnecessarily hastened by the giving of inappropriate doses of strong opiates. The jury found that medication contributed to the deaths of five of the patients. In all of those cases it was found that the medication had been given for therapeutic reasons, however in three cases the dose was inappropriate. The inquest recorded a narrative verdict.
Briony was instructed by Kiran Bhogal of Weightmans Solicitors (Hampshire Primary Care Trust) and Stuart Knowles of Mills & Reeve (Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust).
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