Medical Negligence Compensation

If you have suffered as a result of medical negligence by those who are entrusted with your care, we can help you recover the compensation you deserve.

Medical negligence is a highly specialised area of personal injury law, we have specialists in this area who can help.

Our professional service has helped many people across the UK claim compensation for personal accidents. We believe you should be able to claim compensation if you were injured during an accident and were not to blame.

If your claim is successful, you will receive 100% of your compensation and your solicitor will claim his costs from the insurance company of the person or organisation who is responsible for the accident.

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At some point during their lifetime, everybody will require some sort of medical attention, from doctors, nurses, dentists and other health carers. Though the treatment process is usually problem-free and successful for most patients, cases of medical negligence do arise. This occurs when the care given by the health professional is of a poor standard, resulting in pain, injury, mental problems and sometimes even death. Medical or clinical negligence can also occur before a patient has undergone any surgery or treatment, for example, misdiagnosis by the health carer or a delay in diagnosis which resulted in an injury. Though most medical treatment carries some element of risk or side-effect, by law, health professionals have a duty to provide the highest standard of care to each and every patient. If these laws and regulations are not met, it is highly likely that the patient can claim for medical negligence compensation.

Compensation may be claimed regardless of whether the negligence took place in the NHS or privately. The NHS Constitution gives a person the right to complain of negligence and claim for compensation regarding incidents within the NHS. This constitution states that a patient has a right to complain if:

• Poor service was received from the GP or hospital
• The doctors and/or nurses showed a lack of courtesy
• The patient was refused treatment or unfairly dismissed from a practice
• The patient/family member/friend believes that a health carer may be a danger to the public. 

Many people often associate medical negligence with hospitals or GP’s, however this certainly is not the case. Many cases of negligence are a result of poor treatment by dentists, and fall into three main categories; misdiagnosis, inadequate treatment and/or careless dental work.   

However, receiving medical negligence compensation is often a difficult process due to the difficulties in proving the claim. To prove such a claim, there must be evidence to show that the accident was caused by improper and incompetent health care and lack of judgement, along with evidence of the injury caused as a result of this poor treatment. Furthermore, a consent form should have been signed by the patient before undergoing any medical treatment which highlights any possible risks/side-effects. Consequently, often certain injuries are not sufficient to constitute claims for medical negligence.

If a person’s claim for medical negligence is successful, the compensation they receive depends on many factors. These range from the type of injury sustained, its severity, the persons annual salary and the number of financial dependents the person has.