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We have worked with a wide variety of patients who have experienced medical negligence. Click on our areas of expertise to find out what might go wrong and how the team at patientlawyers.com might be able to assist and advise you.
Approximately 13 million people attend A&E departments in the UK each year, assessing and treating people with serious injuries and those in need of emergency treatment. A&E departments are usually open 24 hours a day, and are generally based in major hospitals.
Manufacturers and producers are responsible for following strict regulatory guidelines intended to protect consumers from defective products and in this way we, as consumers, should feel confident that the products we use are safe.
If you have lost someone as a result of a medical accident or because of sub-standard care or management, the law may be able to help you find out what happened and why, and in some cases recover compensation.
There are many medical conditions which require the involvement of specialist practitioners and although many specialists have considerable expertise in their chosen area of medicine, this does not necessarily prevent medical accidents from occurring.
Millions of patients are treated in the community each year, but whilst in general the treatment is of a high standard, there are occasions when the care is incompetent, and in those circumstances it may be possible to bring a claim for clinical negligence.
The provision of mental health services in the UK ranges from counsellors based in GP surgeries, to hospitals detaining psychiatric patients, and whilst people with psychiatric difficulties are entitled to the same standard of care as patients exhibiting physical problems, on occasions that care falls below such a standard.
When things go wrong in pregnancy or childbirth the effects can be devastating for both the woman and the baby involved and for their long term well being.
Advances in medicine mean that many cancers are now treatable, but as this relies heavily on when the cancer is diagnosed and when the appropriate treatment begins, early detection in cancers can be very important and will sometimes be the key to whether or not a patient will survive. Where there are delays in diagnosing cancer, patients may be deprived of the chance of a cure, or the opportunity to provide palliative care may be lost.
When children are hurt in medical accidents this can be extremely distressing for both the child and the parents, but where children are involved the situation needs to be approached slightly differently.
Many patients require surgical intervention to treat their medical conditions, but whilst most cases surgery proceeds without complication, some procedures do go wrong, both within the NHS and the private sector. If this is a result of substandard care, it may be possible to pursue a claim for medical negligence.
