Can I Sue the NHS for Necrotising Fasciitis?
If a medical professional has caused or contributed to you suffering a poor outcome from a necrotising fasciitis infection, it may indeed be appropriate to make a claim for compensation.
When to make a claim
Recognising and treating necrotising fasciitis is a matter of emergency. If medical professionals fail to provide an acceptable quality of care, the patient may suffer appalling physical and psychological effects from this virulent and life-threatening infection. How can this happen?
- If a failure to carry out a risk infection assessment when admitting a patient to hospital or to implement the appropriate strategies allows the patient to develop necrotising fasciitis, the relevant care professionals may be regarded as having provided substandard care
- If the symptoms of necrotising fasciitis are missed or misdiagnosed, allowing the patient’s condition to deteriorate and resulting in a worse outcome than should have been the case with more prompt care, it may be appropriate to make a claim
- If negligent surgery, causing a bowel perforation, for example, allows a patient to develop necrotising fasciitis, it may be possible to make a claim for compensation
- If a delay in carrying out debridement surgery for a patient with suspected necrotising fasciitis allows the patient to suffer a poor outcome, it may be appropriate to claim compensation
Why make a claim?
As well as addressing issues of pain and suffering, a successful claim for compensation should recompense the patient for the financial loses which have been caused by their negligent treatment.
The impact of necrotising fasciitis can be utterly disabling and, if this means that the patient suffers a loss of income, for example, this financial loss would be incorporated into a claim in so far as it was caused by negligent medical care.
Many people also feel that making a claim provides them with a sense of justice and that their unnecessary suffering has been recognised and acknowledged.
How to make a claim
Compensation claims for medical negligence are extremely complex and it is best to seek the services of a specialist solicitor.
Someone with demonstrable expertise and experience in this complicated field of law will not only have access to the best medical experts who will assess the quality of your medical care, but will also have the skills to negotiate the best settlement on your behalf.
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