Family of woman who died after only getting half her anti-epilepsy medicine settle action for €260k

The family of a woman who died after a charting error resulted in her only getting half her normal dose of an epilepsy drug for 23 days have settled their High Court action over her death for €260,292.

Kathleen Leech (aged 68), a mother of five adult children from Courtown in Gorey, Co Wexford, died on June 30, 2012, after staff at Peamount Healthcare nursing home, Newcastle, Co Dublin, failed to notice she had only been given her morning dose of Keppra, an anti-convulsant to stabilise her epilepsy, when she should also have got a second daily dose.