The Right to Challenge Negligence in Your Medical Care
A patient who suffers from negligent medical care is entitled to challenge that care and seek compensation where appropriate. Speak to a specialist solicitor at the earliest possible moment.
The right to compensation
If the quality of a patient's medical care falls below the appropriate standard, causing the patient to suffer symptoms and significant on-going problems which would not have been the case with an acceptable level of care, that patient is legally entitled to challenge their care and claim compensation for the impact.
Compensation claims address not only the patient's pain and suffering, but the financial impact of any negligence.
For example, if the negligence of a medical professional, be it a GP, an Accident and Emergency practitioner or a surgeon, has caused the patient to suffer symptoms which limit or remove their capacity to work, the patient's loss of earnings would be included in the claim. this would include both their past loss of earnings from the point of the negligence and their anticipated future loss of earnings insofar as this has been caused by the negligence.
If the degree of disability which the patient is suffering as a result of the negligence means that they require specialist treatment or equipment or for their home to be altered in some way, the associated costs would be included in their claim.
Investigating the quality of your care
If you suspect that the quality of your care was negligent in some way and that it adversely affected your health outcome, a specialist medical negligence solicitor will be able to support you to investigate your care and, where appropriate, to challenge the quality of your care and make a claim for compensation.
As a part of this investigation, your solicitor will want you to explain in your own words what has occurred. They will also obtain copies of your medical records and, with the input of the best medical experts, will analyse the quality of your care.
It may also be necessary for you to attend one or more medical appointments to assess the way that any negligence has affected you.
Speak to a specialist solicitor
Compensation claims for medical negligence are extremely complex, both in terms of analysing the quality of acer and in assessing the ways in which the patient has been affected.
If you are thinking of making a claim, it is essential that you get specialist legal support.
Contact Glynns Solicitors today to talk to an experienced specialist solicitor, free of charge, about your situation and the possibility of making a claim.
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