What are Medical Negligence Claims?

1. Medical Negligence Direct What are Medical Negligence Claims? Medical negligence claims refers to the action of an individual to sue or take legal actions against a medical professional for acts of medical negligence. Medical negligence on the other hand refers to a situation where a medical professional fails in his duty of care towards his patient by providing a level of care far below the standards of medical practice or other actions and inactions which have caused the patient to suffer unnecessarily. While making compensation claims for medical negligence, it is important that you and your lawyer be ready to establish that indeed the medical professional owed you a duty of care but failed or breached duty of care. Also, it has to be proven that the failure of your medical practitioner to fulfil his obligation towards you is the direct cause of the pain, trauma or complications which you or your loved one is suffering. In other words, Liability and Causation has to be established in order to win a medical negligence claim in UK.

2. The reasons for making medical negligence compensation claims are; ● When an individual makes a claim and is successful, a compensation fee is awarded to the person. This compensation fee depends on the uniqueness of the case. Each negligence claim is different from the other in terms of specifics and these affect the settlement payout the person will get. Some factors which affect the compensation fee include- severity of the injury, location or site of injury, impact of the injury on the wellbeing of the victim, psychological trauma suffered, estimated time of recovery or future prognosis, cost of further medical treatment, costs of rehabilitative care and assistive devices, costs of housing adjustments, etc. ● Additionally, making a medical negligence claim also offers an opportunity for the hospital establishment to look into what caused the medical negligence and make appropriate changes and improvements to prevent a recurrence. ● Furthermore, the settlement payout a claimant gets will help the victim of medical negligence to access further medical and rehabilitative care which is vital for their recovery Although medical negligence compensation does not reverse the injury or harm suffered neither will it bring back the deceased back to life, but it will go a long way to ease the burden and pain as well ensure that the family does not suffer financially but will be able to have as much as possible, a near normal life as it would have been had the incident not occurred. Our specialist medical negligence solicitors with many years of experience in medical negligence claims have the expertise to handle the following claims and more; ● Birth Injury Negligence Claims ● Dental Negligence Claims ● GP Negligence Claims ● Care Home Abuse Claims ● Cancer Negligence Claims ● Hospital Negligence Claims ● Orthopaedic Negligence Claims ● Cauda Equina Syndrome Negligence Claims 1

3. ● Brain Injury Medical Negligence Claims ● Surgical Error Negligence Claims ● Cosmetic Surgery Negligence Claims ● Erb’s Palsy Negligence Claims ● Forceps Delivery Negligence Claims ● Spinal Injury Negligence Claims ● Fertility Negligence Claims ● Failed Sterilization Claims ● Allergic Reaction Negligence Claims ● Fatal Medical Negligence Claims ● Sepsis Negligence Claims ● Gynaecology Negligence Claims Medical Negligence Claim Process During our free consultation session, our medical negligence claims London solicitors will explain to you in detail without using legal jargon how the medical negligence claims process works. ● First, you speak with our lawyers for free legal advice and assessment of your claims to determine if you have strong grounds for a claim. ● Next is to fund your medical negligence claims using any of the medical negligence funding types your claims are eligible for as advised expertly by your solicitor ● Gather your evidence to support your claim. This will include detailed statements of all that happened; witness statements; patient medical history, tests and scan results; evidence of financial impact and losses as a result of the negligent treatment. In addition, you will most likely be provided with an independent medical expert in the field of interest to examine you and make a report of the impact of the injury suffered on your wellbeing. 2

4. ● Submission of letter of claim to the defendants and establishing liability ● Registering of the claims before the court so as to ensure that both parties follow laid down rules and meet deadlines. Also, this is important so that if the defendant refuse to accept liability or both parties are unable to agree on vital issues, the case will be presided over by a judge. ● Negotiate value of compensation and payment. Asides our consultation sessions being free, we also represent you under our no win no fee medical negligence claims policy. Therefore, you don’t have to put off seeking justice for wrong done to you because of legal fees. We look forward to discussing your claims with you. 3