Medical negligence Barking and Dagenham
Have you been a victim of medical negligence in Barking And Dagenham? Did the mistakes of a medical professional cause you to have a new injury or illness, or make an existing health issue worse that was otherwise unavoidable? If so, you maybe searching for medical negligence solicitors in Barking And Dagenham.
If medical negligence occurs, you have 3 years to begin your compensation claim under the medical negligence claims time limit. This can alter please speak with our advisors for more information. It doesn’t matter if you suffered from NHS negligence, cosmetic surgery negligence or substandard medical care by a private practitioner, our panel of medical negligence solicitors could cover the Barking And Dagenham area to provide you with expert, impartial advice. As we have been in the industry for many years working on a variety of different medical negligence cases, our panel of expert medical negligence solicitors may have the knowledge base to help your case succeed.
This guide will provide you with information regarding the various areas of medical negligence. You may feel that an example of medical negligence mentioned in this guide is similar to your own circumstances. If this is the case, you may want to speak to a member of our team. Speaking with a personal injury solicitor will give a more specific estimation of compensation you could claim than an online personal injury claims calculator.
Our panel of medical negligence solicitors can cover the Barking And Dagenham area and help you with your personal injury claim. Call us today to begin your no win no fee claim.
Choose A Section
- Guide To Finding The Right Medical Claims Solicitor
- Should I Make My Medical Claim With A Solicitor Near Me?
- Your Injuries Could Be Assessed By Our Panel Of Doctors
- How Trustworthy Are Reviews And Recommendations Of A Solicitor?
- What Instances Of Medical Negligence Could I Claim For?
- Negligence In Surgery
- Negligence In Pregnancy Or Birth Care
- Barking And Dagenham Hospital Negligence
- Negligence In Dental Care
- Neglect Or Negligence In A Nursing Home
- Negligence In Cancer Care And Cancer Claims
- Negligence By Your GP
- Barking And Dagenham NHS Medical Negligence Statistics
- Am I Eligible To Make A No Win No Fee Claim?
- Barking And Dagenham Area Hospitals
- Talk To Us
- Local Medical Services And Further Guides
A Guide To Finding The Right Medical Claims Solicitor
The right legal team can be the difference between a case being successful or not, which is why this guide will explain how you could best choose which medical negligence solicitors is right for your case.
You may be wondering what is exactly classed as medical negligence. Medical negligence is when a clinical practitioner provides substandard care and through negligence the patient becomes injured or ill or their existing medical condition worsens when it could have otherwise been avoided. If the duty of care of a medical professional drops below the reasonable expectation of standards, a patient could suffer. This means that you may be entitled to claim compensation for the harm caused to your health and wellbeing.
Once you decide to begin your personal injury claim, there are a variety of ways for you to make the process of choosing the right legal representative more straight forward. Such as:
- Consider solicitors outside of your local area.
- Ask your friends and family for advice or recommendations.
- Compare medical negligence solicitor reviews.
While these methods are useful to begin searching for a medical negligence lawyer, you can speak to one of our team members to find out what other options you may have. You should note that we are not based in Barking And Dagenham. But our panel of medical negligence solicitors can cover the Barking And Dagenham area and have the expertise to assist with almost all medical negligence cases. You can call our claims service on 0800 652 3087 who will be happy to explain the process of making a no win no fee personal injury claim.
Should I Make My Medical Claim With A Solicitor Near Me?
You don’t have any legal requirement to use solicitors in Barking or solicitors in Dagenham. The right solicitor may be based outside of your local area. These days it’s easier than ever to stay in contact with your legal representative regardless of where they are based. You can even look online for the right legal firm and this will help widen your search. Try and change your online search from ‘solicitors near me’ to ‘medical negligence experts’. Our panel of medical negligence solicitors can cover the Barking And Dagenham area even though we are not based there. With so many personal injury solicitors to choose from, you may feel overwhelmed with what representative to use. In any case, we recommend that you take these points into consideration:
- Funding: How will your personal injury claim be financed? Should you use a no win no fee payment structure?
- Experience: You may benefit from choosing a specialist solicitor who has a higher success rate of specific medical negligence cases.
- Location: Do not limit your search to your local area as the right solicitor for your case maybe based across the country.
These important factors will play a vital role in your personal injury claim. If you have any concerns, contact our advisors. We operate between the hours of 8am and 9pm 7 days a week to help you make an informed decision.
Your Injuries Could Be Assessed By Our Panel Of Doctors
One aspect that will help progress your compensation claim is a medical examination. This will be completely impartial and may be beneficial to your case. Once the doctor has conducted this clinical assessment, they will produce a report for our panel of expert medical negligence solicitors. This will then be used as evidence to help secure your compensation. Any injuries or illnesses missed by previous doctors will be highlighted and used as additional evidence.
You may be assessed by one of these doctors covering Barking And Dagenham, such as:
Kashif Aziz
Fortis House,
160 London Road,
Barking,
IG11 8BB
Jessica Spaulding
Regus Office Ilford,
Fortis House,
160 London Road,
Barking,
IG11 8BB
Khalid Shehzad
Regus Office Ilford,
Fortis House,
160 London Road,
Barking,
IG11 8BB
Please note that it may be possible for some medical examinations to be carried out by a different doctor at a different location.
How Trustworthy Are Reviews And Recommendations Of A Solicitor?
A common method of selection is to consider online reviews and personal recommendations from friends and family. We believe that this is an important step when choosing a solicitor. The experiences of previous claimants can help create a more accurate picture of personal injury lawyers.
Not all reviews are authentic though, which is why it’s important to take care when looking at reviews online.
What Instances Of Medical Negligence Could I Claim For?
Our panel of expert medical negligence solicitors could represent you in cases such as; cancer claims, cosmetic surgery negligence, NHS negligence and negligence in sexual health services. There are a range of circumstances which could fall into the medical negligence category. For example, if you were a victim of negligent misdiagnosis and harmed as a result of it, you may be eligible for compensation. Below are some examples of what may be considered medical negligence by a care provider:
- Prescription error, being prescribed the wrong medication which causes you to become ill.
- A pregnancy or birth injury during the pregnancy, birth or immediate postnatal care. If symptoms are not diagnosed correctly and either the expectant mother or feotus suffer as a consequence.
- Negligent surgical care such as ‘Never Events’
This guide will look in more detail at the various types of medical negligence cases. You should note that we are not based in Barking And Dagenham, but our panel of medical negligence solicitors can cover the Barking And Dagenham area.
Negligence In Surgery
If a medical professional fails to uphold reasonable standards of care during surgery, it could cause serious harm to their patients. This could include ‘Never Events’. These types of events are mistakes which should never occur, such as performing surgery on the wrong body part or foreign objects being left after surgery.
If you have been the victim of medical negligence in surgery at Barking hospital or Old Dagenham hospital, then our panel of expert medical negligence solicitors may be able to help you claim compensation. Call a member of our team today to discuss your options.
Negligence In Pregnancy Or Birth Care
If medical professionals make mistakes it could jeopardise the safety of their patient. In such critical times, both the mother and child need the highest standards of treatment to ensure both are safe and healthy. But if these needs are not fulfilled, the mother or child could suffer as a consequence.
You may be able to claim compensation if a doctor performed a negligent C-section and damaged your internal organs as a result. Other forms of birth care negligence can include failure to spot signs of hypoxia or distress which could create long-term health conditions, such as Cerebral Palsy.
To begin your personal injury claim, call Medical Negligence Assist today to discuss your circumstances. We are not based in Barking And Dagenham but our panel of medical negligence solicitors can cover the Barking And Dagenham area. We believe that every case is unique, which is why our panel of expert medical solicitors will be able to provide you a more centralised estimation of how much compensation you will receive.
Barking And Dagenham Hospital Negligence
Hospitals are critical to our society, without them where would people find the medical help they needed as GP’s can only deliver a service so far. Hospitals are increasingly becoming stretched far past their max capacity with the population aging much better than in the past and new break through medication and treatments providing cures for some severe illnesses. If staff at hospitals cannot perform how they would like as the resource are not available or they are short staffed or staff are over worked it maybe possible for services to fall below the level they should be at. Possible hospital negligence could include medication errors, treatment mistakes, misdiagnosis, surgical negligence.
If you have suffered because of medical negligence at Barking hospital, Parkview Medical Centre, Old Dagenham hospital or anywhere else in the Barking And Dagenham area then contact a member of our team. Our panel of medical negligence solicitors can cover the Barking And Dagenham area to assist your personal injury claim.
Negligence In Dental Care
Our panel of expert medical solicitors can cover dental negligence claims too. If your dentist acts with negligence you could find yourself with unnecessary nerve damage, the wrong tooth being extracted or even damage to a healthy tooth. These consequences may be otherwise avoidable when the correct standard of care is delivered.
Neglect Or Negligence In A Nursing Home
When someone you love is a resident at a nursing home, you may expect them to be treated with the best level of care. However, if guidelines and legislation obligations are not met then this may cause residents to become avoidably ill. Negligence in nursing homes could lead to incorrect medication being dispensed, fractures, malnutrition or bed sores. If you or a loved one has suffered from neglect at a care home, you may be able to claim compensation. There is also the option to make the case on behalf of your loved one if they are unable to do so. Speak to our panel of expert medical negligence solicitors to discuss your case.
Negligence In Cancer Care And Cancer Claims
A disease like cancer could spread at such a rapid pace if quick treatment isn’t delivered. In some cases, the delay or misdiagnosis of cancer could be fatal. The lack of appropriate treatment can sometimes cause the cancer to spread to other parts of the body meaning any treatment may need to be more aggressive and intense. Not all misdiagnoses that occur or delays in treatments are the responsibility of the medical staff it is only if the practitioners fail to diagnose an illness that they would have been expected to under reasonable circumstances. If a negligent diagnosis is made which causes unnecessary suffering the patient may have the right to pursue a claim for harm suffered. In addition to this, the dependants of those who have passed away due to negligent delayed or misdiagnosed cancer may also be able to make a compensation claim on their behalf. Our panel of medical negligence solicitors can cover the Barking And Dagenham area and help represent cancer negligence claims.
Negligence By Your GP
If you think you may have suffered from out of hours GP negligence or any negligence by a GP then you may be able to make a personal injury claim with a medical negligence solicitor if you have suffered unnecessarily. If your GP has made a negligent mistake which has caused your medical condition to become worse, maybe they misdiagnosed your condition when they would have been reasonably expected to get the right diagnosis or having the wrong medication prescribed to you, then you may be eligible to pursue a claim for GP negligence.
North East London NHS Trust Foundation Medical Negligence Statistics
Below is a table that illustrates the number of medical negligence incidents for North East London NHS Trust Foundation . This is to give you a better understanding of how many claims have been made so far. Please note that these statistics are only in relation to North East London NHS Trust Foundation as private hospital data is not available.
| NHS TRUST OR RELEVANT HEALTHCARE AUTHORITY | NO. OF CLAIMS RECEIVED | NO. OF REPORTED INCIDENTS | CNST DAMAGES PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| North East London NHS Foundation Trust | 13 | * | £121,995 |
Am I Eligible To Make A No Win No Fee Claim?
If at any point while reading this guide you felt that a category mentioned was similar to your experience of medical negligence, then you may be eligible to make a personal injury claim. You may want to speak to a member of our panel of expert medical negligence solicitors if you are still unsure about whether you are entitled to make a compensation claim. However, one thing we believe you should take into consideration is how your legal fees will be settled once your case comes to an end. For many people, a no win no fee agreement is the more affordable option with less stress. If you decide to choose this option, your solicitors fees will be settled with the compensation you receive for your claim. If your case is unsuccessful, you won’t be charged for your medical negligence lawyers time.
Our panel of medical negligence solicitors can cover the Barking And Dagenham area under a no win no fee agreement. When you contact our team, they will discuss what portion of your compensation will be set aside to pay for your legal representative.
Barking And Dagenham Area Hospitals
There are a variety of different medical clinics in the Barking And Dagenham area, including:
- Barking Hospital
- Queens Hospital
- King George Hospital
- Parkview Medical Centre
- Old Dagenham Park
- Rush Green Medical Centre
Talk To Us
Our panel of medical negligence solicitors can cover the Barking And Dagenham area which means you don’t have to be restricted to medical negligence solicitors in Barking or medical negligence solicitors in Dagenham. No matter what type of medical negligence you suffered from, whether you have been the victim of negligence in sexual health services or you are concerned about negligence by a GP, we at Medical Negligence Assist can help you find the right solicitor. We are only a phone call away between 8am and 9pm every single day. Call us now on 0800 652 3087 or fill out an online contact form.
Local Medical Services And Further Guides
Below are some resources which you may find helpful.
Adult Social Care; Information on adult and social care in your area.
What is Medical Misdiagnosis? Answers questions you may have.
Birth Injury Claims – What constitutes medical negligence in birth and pregnancy claims.
Barking Hospital
Upney Lane,
Barking,
IG11 9LX
Web: bhrhospitals.nhs.uk
Edited by LisM.