What is medical negligence?

Medical negligence is a professional negligence committed by the physician or any of the relating staff members a patient is not treated with the proper amount of care resulting in an injury or death. Most cases involve registered medical practitioners, doctors and surgeons, but similar principles are applied to relating staff members such as dentists, midwives, nurses, physiotherapists, psychologists and psychiatrists.

A treating doctor is obliged by the governing body, the General Medical Council, to inform a patient when that treatment has gone wrong. Doctors have been found in breach of a duty of care for failed or delayed diagnosis, failure to warn of risks in treatment, failure to obtain proper consent to treatment, medication errors, careless surgical procedures and delayed referral to specialists. Negligence can also arise out of system errors in the hospital where the treatment took place.

How do I claim?

In order to bring a claim for medical negligence you must prove, through the evidence of medical experts qualified in the speciality concerned, that, 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 contributed to, the injury you are complaining about.

Making a claim is quick and simple, the first thing you need to do is email us on claims @ medicalnegligenceclaims.com (please remove all spaces in address).

Any compensation awarded may not be limited to just the physical injury suffered but may also include loss of earnings and out of pocket expenses.

Medical or clinical negligence is a complex and highly specialised area of the law as it involves the issue of professional negligence and has legal principles and rules of procedure which differ from those covering other personal injury claims.