Medical Negligence
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If you have suffered pain and suffering following a medical procedure or after being given the wrong advice in a hospital, nursing home or residential care home, you may be able to claim compensation.
A mistake made by a doctor, midwife or other medical professional can have serious consequences. Were you misdiagnosed? Was there a mistake made during surgery? Were you or your baby injured during pregnancy or birth?
By clicking the “Get me a Quote” button below, you will be able to compare the services and prices of a wide range of specialist solicitors who are experts in this field. Your chosen solicitor will then be able to give you advice about claiming for your pain and suffering, any care needs you may have, medical and legal expenses, loss of income and reduced employment prospects.
Doctors and nurses are generally regarded as providing excellent, caring service for their patients. Nevertheless, if you, your spouse or child, have been injured, or if you are the dependant or child of a patient who died, as a result of medical treatment you are, at the very least, entitled to an explanation. A treating doctor, in fact, is required by his governing body, the General Medical Council www.gmc-uk.org, to inform a patient when that treatment has gone wrong.
Where the injury or death was caused or contributed to by the breach of a duty of care committed in the course of the provision of clinical or medical services, you and/or your child may be entitled to financial compensation for what is termed ‘clinical negligence’, formerly known as ‘medical negligence’.
If you were treated as a private patient, and paid the doctor, either yourself or through your medical insurer, you may also be able to claim for breach of contract if your medical treatment was substandard.
Doctors can be found in breach of a duty of care for, among other things, failed or delayed diagnosis, failure to warn of risks in treatment, failure to obtain proper consent to treatment, medication errors, careless surgical procedures, delayed referral to specialists. Negligence can also arise out of system errors in the hospital where the treatment took place.
To succeed in a clinical negligence claim you must prove, through the evidence of medical experts qualified in the speciality concerned, that, on a balance of probabilities (ie, it was more probable than not)
- that there were serious errors in your medical treatment which no competent doctor would have made; and
- that those errors caused, or materially contributed to, the injury you are complaining of.
Clinical negligence is a complex and highly specialised area of the law and for those looking to make a complaint, it is essential to seek out an experienced clinical negligence solicitor.
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