What is Involved in a Medical Negligence Compensation Claim?
Making a claim for medical negligence can be both complex and time-consuming but the outcome for the patient can provide not only a sense of justice that the negligence has been acknowledged but also help them to deal with the many financial challenges which they are now facing.
Making a claim
For a claim to succeed it is necessary to establish in the first place that an act of negligence or a breach of duty has, indeed, occurred during the patient's medical care. This may have occurred in a variety of ways including failures of examination, diagnosis, medication prescription and errors in surgery amongst many others.
It is also necessary to demonstrate that any act of negligence has adversely affected the patient's long-term outcome. By this is meant that the patient is left with symptoms and difficulties which would not have been the case with an acceptable and appropriate level of medical care.
In order for these two things to be identified, a specialist solicitor will undertake an investigation into the patient's care by analysing their medical records with the input of the best medical experts.
It is also likely that the patient will need to attend a number of medical appointments so that the impact of the negligence and their likely future condition and challenges can be assessed.
The patient will also be required to provide information to produce a witness statement of what has occurred to them, describing their experience, development of symptoms and interactions with the medical profession. Their specialist solicitor will assist them in this process.
Addressing financial losses
Once it is clear that the patient has been the victim of negligence, a further meticulous assessment of the impact on their health and quality of life is undertaken to establish their financial losses.
Depending on the nature of the negligence and the patient's symptoms, their financial losses may include a loss of earnings as well as the costs of equipment, treatment and care as appropriate and insofar as it has been caused by the negligence.
The complexity of these processes requires the expertise of a specialist solicitor. The running of a compensation claim for medical negligence is also associated with very precise legal requirements and deadlines which must be adhered to. An expert in this field of law is crucial to a successful outcome.
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Glynns Solicitors is a dedicated medical negligence legal practice with extensive experience and expertise in this complex area of law.
Contact us today to talk to a solicitor, free of charge, about the possibility of making a claim for compensation for medical negligence.
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