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A leading medical negligence lawyer told Channel 4 News that she believed the scale of harm caused by failings in Addenbrooke’s Hospital’s paediatric orthopaedics department could have been far wider than officially acknowledged – with “many more than the 800” patients already identified.

“The scale of it, we know, is already significant. And it seems to be that as the review process develops, it’s widening all the time.”

– Jodie Newton

Jodie Newton, partner and head of paediatric negligence at Osbornes Law, represented eight families of patients affected by operations carried out under surgeon Kuldeep Stohr.

She said: “The scale of it, we know, is already significant. And it seems to be that as the review process develops, it’s widening all the time.”

Many of those involved wer

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