Medical negligence claims
Medical negligence is professional carelessness committed by a physician or any relating staff members that does not conform to the accepted standards of medical practise and causes injury or even death to the patient.
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 by failed or delayed diagnosis, failure to warn of risks in treatment, failure to obtain proper consent to treatment, medication errors and careless surgical procedures. Medical 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 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.
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 our medical negligence solicitors are highly experienced in the area.
Types of negligence we handle
Medical negligence claims can occur from an accident, anaesthetics, cancer treatment, cardiothoracic surgery, cardiology, gastroenterology, general practice, keyhole surgery, mental health, neurosurgery, gynaecology, oncology, ophthalmology, orthopaedics, paediatrics, plastic surgery, psychiatry, radiology, sterilisation, urology, vascular surgery and many more.
Injury can include any physical injury including brain damage and psychological injury such as nervous shock or death.