Although they normally perform a fantastic job when caring for us, there are times when limited resources, pressure and plain human error impact on the work of medical professionals. This is known as medical negligence and, as Raleys Solicitors point out, can have far reaching impacts on the lives of the victims including serious and painful injury. Victims of negligence sometimes feel guilty about making a claim. However, their pain and suffering does deserve an apology and compensation.
Negligence surgery, misdiagnosis, delayed diagnosis and poor care are often factors in negligence cases according to Raleys solicitors.
Patients who feel they have been the victim of medical negligence causing suffering should go through the NHS complaints procedure before launching their hospital negligence claims. The complaints procedure does not aim to give compensation: rather it can provide apologies and explanations. Using this system can leave patients in a better position to decide whether or not to make hospital negligence claims.
This area of law is very complex and it is therefore important to contact an experienced solicitor. The first step is for the solicitor to liaise with an independent medical expert to establish whether or not you have a claim.
If you do have the right to claim then you and your solicitor must demonstrate that the care you received fell below the standard expected of a competent medical professional. A defendant cannot be found to have been negligent if they can show that a substantial body of similarly qualified practitioners would have managed your care in the same way.
Lastly, you must demonstrate that the negligence itself directly caused the injury. That means showing that if it hadn’t been for the negligence the injury would not have happened anyway.
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