More than 200 families are planning legal action against Leicester Royal
Infirmary after children were wrongly diagnosed with epilepsy.
An investigation has already shown 150 children were either given the
wrong diagnosis, or the wrong treatments.
Some children were put on cocktails of drugs in excess of normal
limits.
Consultant paediatrician Dr Andrew Holton is currently under
investigation in connection with the scandal, and 1,900 cases are under
review.

Since we have got her off the medication, we have got a new child

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Duncan Watts, father
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Parents and carers met hospital
managers on Sunday, where it was revealed how many are pursuing legal
action.
Many voiced concerns about how they have still not had a full
explanation about their childrens' conditions, or the effects of the
epilepsy drugs that were prescribed.
Duncan Watts' 14-year-old daughter Tara was ordered to take up to 32
tablets a day after she was wrongly diagnosed by Dr Holton.
Mr Watts said: "He put her on higher levels of medication than was
necessary and kept increasing them.
Dr Holton is currently under investigation
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"Since we have got her off the
medication, we have got a new child. She seems to be enjoying life a lot
more, she's alert."
It is more than a year since Dr Holton was suspended from his job at
the hospital.
Now the General Medical Council has changed the details of his
registration, effectively stopping him working while investigations are
carried out.
Claims were also made at the meeting that parents are waiting up to 18
months for diagnostic tests to be carried out on their children, while
others were able to pay privately for the tests at the hospital.
Hospital bosses said they would investigate the claims, and said money
was no object in the inquiry into the scandal.