Medical Mistakes and When to Claim Compensation
Mistakes in medical care may justify a claim for compensation if the patient suffers as a result. Talk to a legal specialist about your right to make a claim.
Medical mistakes and compensation
If you are thinking about trying to make a claim for compensation for medical negligence, the first thing to be aware of is that there is a legal three-year deadline from the date of the alleged negligence. This may sound like a very long time but, before this deadline is up, it is necessary for a specialist solicitor to carry out a thorough investigation into the quality of the patient's care. This means obtaining copies of the patient's medical records and engaging the services of the best medical experts to analyse the quality of their care.
It may be possible to make a claim for compensation for negligent medical care if it is found, not only that an act of negligence has occurred, but that is has adversely affected the patient's outcome.
Across the thousands of interactions and procedures which take place within the NHS on a daily basis, mistakes are bound to happen. Some are more serious than others and some have a far greater impact on the future of the patient. Indeed, some are life-changing in their impact, rendering the patient disabled to some degree.
When a claim for compensation succeeds, it will, where appropriate, take into account the impact and associated financial losses and costs of the negligent care.
For example, if a formerly healthy patient is now unable to work or has become reliant on care or specialist equipment, the loss of income or costs of care would be included in the claim.
Identifying medical negligence
Teasing out the impact of any negligence on the patient's life requires considerable expertise in this highly complex field of law.
Life-changing medical negligence does not always occur in what might seem the obvious circumstances such as surgery or diagnosis. It might be due to an incorrect medication prescription, a failure to provide red flag warnings or a failure to risk assess a patient.
The varying ways in which a patient may be affected are also not always immediately obvious and require the experience of a specialist to ensure that any aspect of the patient's needs is not overlooked.
Speak to a legal specialist
Glynns Solicitors is a dedicated medical negligence legal practice.
Contact us to speak with one of our solicitors, 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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