MEDICAL NEGLIGENCE COMPENSATION

In Britain today, we mostly enjoy an excellent standard of healthcare. Nevertheless mistakes are occasionally made. Errors within the medical profession can, unfortunately, have devastating consequences which can justify substantial medical negligence compensation. Administration slip-ups can cause distress. Mistakes made in treatment can be even more serious. A health professional’s error can cause pain, injury, mental impairment or even death.

‘Clinical negligence’ is the term used to describe any incident where a patient is harmed because a health professional has not given the proper standard of care. This includes any mistake in treatment that should not have been performed and any failure to carry out an essential medical practice or fulfil an essential medical duty. It also covers mistakes made by professionals in the fields of nursing and dentistry as well as surgeons, casualty staff, specialists and general practitioners (GPs). ‘Medical negligence’ is a more general description of physical or emotional trauma caused by clinical negligence, medical errors, mistreatment or abuse.

You may be able to make a medical negligence compensation claim if:

• You or a relative have been a victim
• You are the dependent of someone who has died as a result of a clinical error

Recovering sums of money can never properly compensate our clients for their suffering. Highlighting these cases does however help ensure monitoring of the health services and also hastens improvements in medical standards and treatment.

You must see an experienced lawyer if you or a relative need financial compensation. This is a highly specialised and complex field of the law and legal procedures are unlike ordinary personal injury compensation cases. Indeed, the legal principles and rules of procedure differ from those covering all other areas of the law. Such cases can be difficult to prove and it is essential that a specialist solicitor handle the case.

We are an independent network of specialist qualified lawyers operating throughout the UK. All of our solicitors are members of the Law Society panel of experts and have a thorough understanding of the legal aspects of clinical negligence. Our solicitors all possess a comprehensive knowledge of complex medical issues, which inevitably arise in cases of medical negligence compensation. Every one of our experienced solicitors can make an initial assessment of a claim and assess its potential for investigation.