HOSPITAL NEGLIGENCE CLAIMS

Our national network of highly qualified solicitors can help you find out what failed and why, when someone is wrongfully treated in a hospital. All the solicitors in the network are experienced in handling hospital negligence claims covering every specialist area of medicine. In the changing turbulent world of medical care and procedure, the network protects patient rights and ensures justice for wrongful treatment.

The network solicitors conduct thorough investigations into each case. Our solicitors fight claims on the grounds of improper treatment, surgery or diagnosis. We also looks into related issues, such as product liability. Cases can be fought and won over the liability of medical products and drugs.

Health Care Trusts or more usually their insurers are liable to settle successful hospital negligence claims as a result of erroneous action by their employees, including doctors, dentists, nurses, casualty staff and other health professionals. Workers in the health industry have a duty of care towards their patients. They are required to act with a level of skill and learning which members of the profession in the same geographic community ordinarily possess. A professional will be liable for negligence if he or she acts without the requisite skill and competence. However, they will not be liable for negligence if an operation or procedure fails to produce the desired result for a reason beyond practitioner’s duty of care.

Medical errors can have disastrous consequences for the victim and their family. The network can help by recovering fair and adequate compensation. In the course of the investigation, the network also finds an explanation for the negligence and helps ensure that it does not happen again. The network improves monitoring of hospitals and accelerates improvements in hospital treatments and services by bringing the issue of negligence into the public domain by a legal route.

Hospital negligence claims can arise in many different cirdcumstances. negligence is deemed to have occurred when workers fail to demonstrate a level of skill or learning normally possessed by members of the same profession in the same geographical area. It can include, but is not limited to:

• Delay or failure to diagnose disease
• A surgical or anaesthesia related mistake
• Failure to properly treat a complaint once it has been diagnosed
• Misuse of prescription drugs or medical products

Most medical devices are safe and effectively fulfil their intended use. However there can be risk involved and when a doctor uses a medical device it is their duty to inform the patient of any associated risks. The patient is entitled to compensation when a doctor fails to explain risk and the patient suffers harmful affects from a device they were not warned about.

If you would like to discuss your potential claim with an experienced clinical negligence solicitor, the network will give you free qualified advice without any further obligation. Complete the contact form and you will be given a call as soon as possible by one of the team.