Can I Claim Compensation for Meningitis Medical Negligence?
If you or a loved one have suffered a poor outcome from meningitis due to negligent medical care, you may well be able to claim compensation which would address the impact of the negligence.
Meningitis negligence
Meningitis can be a life-changing or life-threatening illness. Appropriate and timely medical management, diagnosis and treatment is essential.
Negligent care, however, can be devastating to the patient and their family. Where the patient survives, they may become reliant on care and unable to work, suffering a wide range of symptoms and disabilities, reducing their entire quality of life.
Examples of negligence in relation to meningitis can include the following serious failures in care:
- A failure to recognise that the patient's symptoms may indicate a meningitis diagnosis
- A failure to make a thorough assessment of the patient and identify all symptoms
- A misdiagnosis of the patient's symptoms
- A failure to carry out or refer the patient for tests in a timely manner
- Initiating treatment which is not suitable to the diagnosis or the form of meningitis from which the patient is suffering.
Claiming compensation
If you think that you or your loved one have experienced substandard medical care, the first step is to speak to a specialist solicitor.
They will be able to obtain copies of your medical records and instruct the best medical experts to analyse the quality of your care.
If it is established that an act of negligence affected your outcome, your solicitor will assess the ways in which you have been affected and the associated financial losses which you are entitled to claim.
For example, if you are now unable to work or are restricted in the hours or type of work you can manage, thereby suffering a significant loss of income, those losses, both past and future would be included your claim.
Furthermore, if you need some degree of personal care in order to cope with the demands of daily life, those costs would be incorporated into your claim insofar as they have been caused by the negligent care.
Speak to a legal specialist
Glynns Solicitors is a dedicated medical negligence legal practice with a team of experienced lawyers and a long-standing history of success in high-value claims.
Contact us today to talk to a solicitor, free of charge, about the possibility of making a claim.
We can offer No Win No Fee medical negligence funding which we will discuss with you during your free initial telephone discussion.
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