A swinger is suing the NHS for more than £10 million in damages after she broke her neck and became paralyzed while drunkenly diving into a pool during a club night.
She suffered a permanent spinal cord injury and spent more than six months in hospital after diving into the shallow end of a pool at Blackpool swingers club Infusion in August 2021.
Staff saw her floating in the water and carefully pulled her out while her partner called 999, according to documents filed in the High Court.
She claims the paramedics caused further damage leaving her paralyzed when they transported her in a track chair (a wheelchair used to transport patients) without supporting her head and dropped her causing her to fall to the ground.
Infusion, the swingers’ club in Blackpool where the woman drunkenly dived into the pool
The woman will never be able to walk again or work or live independently, documents say.
She is suing North West Ambulance Services Trust and Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust for personal injury and consequential damages.
She claims that doctors did not realize there was a possibility that she had hit her head in the pool.
In her claim, she also accuses hospital staff of failing to recognize that she injured her neck and failing to take steps to prevent her spinal cord injury from worsening.