Medical Negligence

– Six Of

The Most Common

Claim Types

General NHS negligence

The NHS runs a slick and well-oiled machine overall. Things still can go extremely wrong from time to time unfortunately. For instance, say an ambulance takes a long amount of time to arrive when you have had a stroke or heart attack, and you eventually endure brain damage or other organ damage due to a deficiency of oxygen. In a case like this, you might be able to explore a claim for medical negligence against a particular NHS trust.

Nursing negligence

Nurses are accountable when it comes to ensuring their patients are comfortable and well cared. Case in point; previous investigations into Staffordshire Hospital shockingly revealed that nurses were abandoning patients without enough food and water, forcing them to have to drink from flower vases in order to prevent themselves dehydrating. Any reasonable person would surely accept that this type of negligence is astonishing and unsatisfactory, and perhaps due to budget cuts and decreased staffing levels in the NHS, nursing negligence appears to be escalating - or perhaps it is just that the UK media are now prepared to publicize these failings?

Surgical negligence

This could include a whole host of different errors, incorporating anything from substandard pain relief in the course of surgery to having the wrong organ taken away by a surgeon. The degrees of compensation related, as you can imagine, would correspond with the severity of the scenario and the probable implications in terms of a reduction of earnings and long-term distress.

Sterilisation or abortion failure

In situations where there has been a failure in a person’s sterilisation or abortion, there could be the birth of a child where generally this person would have never envisaged or expected children. The financial repercussions for the parents in a case like this can be significant and this is a factor when medical negligence is judged and compensation levels are arranged. Payments for compensation for this type of medical negligence claim are generally on the substantial side.

Clinical Misdiagnosis

Being told you have an illness which you then find you don’t have can be extremely upsetting. Of more concern is being inaccurately given the all-clear and afterwards learning that you have an ailment which has got steadily worse and could have been remedied or cured. Cancer misdiagnosis is specifically quite disturbing and can be deadly - and is sadly not uncommon..

Defects and injuries during birth

Pregnancy in general can be challenging and full of hazards, but add medical negligence to it, it can multiply these problems and the outcome could mean birth defects or injuries to the mother or the child. This could be through procedural errors or the improper administering of drugs. The negligence suffered could cause issues or problems for the lifetime of that child, therefore, the economic consequences of this can be significant. In terms of financial compensation, these types of claims are notable for their size.

If you believe you have encountered negligence at the hands of a medical professional, you need the assistance and support of professional medical negligence solicitors in Salisbury, who can competently look at your case in a professional manner and see whether or not the NHS has a case to address. You could be due financial compensation. All medical negligence cases have a firm time limit, so you should ensure that you talk to a specialist solicitor immediately.