Inverness Medical Negligence Solicitors – No Win No Fee Claims Lawyers Guide

Medical negligence Inverness

Medical negligence Inverness

If you live in Inverness and have been injured, made ill, or had your existing medical condition made worse because of medical negligence, you could be entitled to claim compensation for your injuries. You may also be searching for medical negligence solicitors in Inverness. Trust Medical Negligence Assist to provide you with an excellent solicitor covering the Inverness area to handle your claim. If you wish to make an Inverness no win no fee medical negligence claim, trust us to find the right solicitor from our panel to handle your claim.

Whether you were injured due to a doctor at a GP surgery, experienced hospital negligence, hospital staff negligence, had your medical condition worsened because of misdiagnosis or wish to make a surgery claim for negligence during an operation, we can help you. Our panel of expert medical negligence solicitors could work on a no win no fee basis. Many of the solicitors we work with have up to three decades of experience handling personal injury claims and will always fight to win you the maximum amount of compensation that you could be owed.

If you wish to claim compensation for medical negligence in Inverness & the Highlands call us today on 0800 652 3087 for your free personal injury claims consultation. One of our informed advisors will be able to talk to you in-depth about your experiences and if we believe that you have legitimate grounds to make a medical negligence claim, we could supply you with an excellent personal injury solicitor from our panel to handle your case, who will start working on your compensation claim at the earliest possible date. We may also estimate how much you could be entitled to claim.

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Choosing A Solicitor, For A Clinical Negligence Claim In Inverness

Before we carry on, let’s define what medical negligence is. Medical negligence is also referred to as clinical negligence and medical malpractice. It is when a medical practitioner harms a patient, causing them an illness, injury or makes their pre-existing condition worse, by failing to care for the patient properly. Some real-life examples of medical negligence could be a doctor prescribing the wrong medicine, hospital staff failing to provide for a patient’s medical needs, or misdiagnosis. Medical negligence can occur in any area of medicine such as dentistry, at a GP’s surgery, during hospital treatment or physiotherapy.

If a patient is harmed because of medical negligence, they could be entitled to claim compensation for their injuries. If you were injured because of NHS negligence, you would claim against your local NHS trust. If you have been made ill, injured or had your existing medical condition worsened because of negligence on the part of a private healthcare provider, you will make a personal injury claim against that business. Trust Medical Negligence Assist, to supply you with the right personal injury solicitor to handle your claim correctly.

We will now advise you on how to find the right personal injury solicitor to handle your claim. Remember, if you have been injured, ill, or had your existing medical condition made worse because of negligence in Scotland, our panel of medical negligence solicitors can cover the Inverness area.

Do You Need To Claim With An Inverness Medical Claims Firm?

It’s a common misconception that if you live in Inverness, you have to use a medical negligence solicitor in Inverness to handle your claim. In fact, it is normal for prospective claimants to ask us if they have to use a “medical negligence solicitor near me”, to handle their claim. Medical Negligence Assist runs a nationwide service, and our panel of expert medical negligence solicitors cover locations all over Great Britain. Wherever your solicitor is based, the majority of your communications with them will be handled remotely, over the phone, or via email, which means that their location won’t be important.

Instead of focusing on finding a “medical negligence solicitors in my area”, we recommend prioritise finding a solicitor with plenty of experience successfully handling cases of medical negligence, which are similar to yours. You may also want a solicitor that offers the option to make a no win no fee claim. To get started, call Medical Negligence Assist today, and we will be able to provide you with a medical negligence lawyer that has the right expertise to handle your claim.

Medical Appointments Could Take Place With Our Panel Of Doctors

You may be seen by a doctor who is a member of our specialist panel. Those closest to this area include,

Mark Innes Burgin
The Aberdeen Clinic,
Regus House,
1 Berry Street,
Aberdeen,
AB25 1HF

Mark Innes Burgin
The Alba Clinic,
148 Princes Street,
Dundee
DD4 6DG

Testimonials Of Solicitors Handling Medical Claims

If you are actively looking for a medical negligence solicitor in Inverness or elsewhere to handle your claim, you may have read client testimonials on a firm’s website. What are client testimonials? Client testimonials are statements from previous customers, recommending the firm. These can be helpful to read, however they may only contain positive opinions about the medical negligence solicitors firm. To see a wider range of opinions from previous clients, you can read online medical negligence solicitor reviews. By reading online reviews of law firms, you can see if the majority of the reviews were positive and can also gain some insight into the sort of service the firm offers. To find reviews, type terms such as “medical negligence solicitors in my area” or “Inverness medical negligence solicitor reviews” into a search engine such as Google or Bing. Reviews of medical negligence solicitors here and in the surrounding area should appear in the search results.

Alternatively, take advantage of your free medical negligence claims consultation. Call us today, and Medical Negligence Assist may be able to find the right personal injury solicitor from our panel to handle your case, based on your individual needs. We work with lawyers that have up to 30 years of experience handling personal injury claims and will be able to provide you with an excellent personal injury solicitor that has plenty of experience handling claims for cases of medical negligence that are similar to yours.

Medical Negligence Claims In Inverness & The Highlands Which You Could Make

Have you been injured or made ill because of medical negligence in Inverness and The Highlands? Whether you were injured in a care home in Scotland, suffered misdiagnosis, were injured due to a doctor’s negligent behaviour or suffered due to hospital medical negligence, you could be entitled to claim compensation.

Remember, at Medical Negligence Assist we will handle claims for any sort of medical negligence, as long as you were injured or otherwise harmed in some way. If you have a close relative who is unable to claim for themselves, for example, they are suffering from dementia and were injured in a care home in Scotland, you could be entitled to claim on their behalf. You could also claim on behalf of a deceased relation if they died because of medical negligence.

There is also a medical negligence claims time limit in the UK of three years. This means that you have to begin your medical negligence claim within three years of the incident happening, or you realising that you have been harmed. There are sometimes exceptions to this rule, so if you fall outside the medical negligence claims time limit, you could still be entitled to claim. Call us today for more advice on the subject.

We will now look at some common types of medical negligence claims that we handle. Remember, if we have not mentioned the type of case of medical negligence that you were involved in, you could still be entitled to claim. Call today to see if you are entitled to medical negligence compensation.

Operation And Surgery Claims

If you have experienced medical negligence during surgery, you could be entitled to make an operation and surgery claim. Surgery is a critical time when surgeons, anaesthetists and nursing staff have to take the utmost care to ensure a patient’s wellbeing. Examples of general negligence during surgery can include: a surgeon performing an operation on the wrong part of the body (for example, amputating the wrong limb), an operation being carried out needlessly on a patient when there was a less invasive option, a foriegn body being left inside a patient – requiring a further operation to remove it, or an internal mesh not being inserted correctly.

If you have been injured, became ill or had your existing medical condition made worse because of negligence in surgery at a hospital in Scotland, you could be entitled to claim compensation for your injuries. Call Medical Negligence Assist today and if you are entitled to claim a solicitor from our panel could help you make a claim.

Birth, Pregnancy And Obstetrics Claims

During pregnancy, childbirth and the period immediately afterwards, it is essential that both the mother and infant receive the highest possible standards of care. If an accident during pregnancy or birth happens because of negligence this can result in the mother or child being injured. These injuries can have long term or even life-threatening effects. For example, if the mother develops gestational diabetes during pregnancy, this can have drastic consequences if it is misdiagnosed and goes untreated, including a slightly higher chance of the infant suffering a neonatal death. Alternatively, a mother can also develop an infection called postpartum sepsis, up to six weeks after the birth of her child. If this is not treated correctly, it can result in the mother suffering an unnecessary death.

Call Medical Negligence Assist if you or your child have been injured because of hospital negligence or hospital staff negligence leading to pregnancy, birth or postpartum injuries. Our panel of medical negligence solicitors can cover the Inverness area and help you win the compensation that you are entitled to.

Negligence In An NHS Or Private Hospital

Most hospitals are well run by a team of staff who work flat out to provide their patients with the highest possible standards of care. However, medical negligence could happen, especially in the current climate of cuts from central government and hospitals having to operate on reduced resources. Examples of Scotland hospital negligence or hospital staff negligence could include misdiagnosis, accidents involving anaesthetics, Accident & Emergency department avoidable injuries or a doctor prescribing the wrong dosage of medication to a patient, amongst others.

Neglect In A Care Home In Scotland

You can also claim compensation on behalf of your next of kin relative if they have been injured because of medical negligence and are unable to claim for themselves. This could be because they are not judged to be of sound mind, for example, if they are suffering from dementia and experienced negligence in a care home. Examples of neglect in a care home can be willful neglect or abuse, a patient being given the wrong medication, or a patient being left alone unsupervised with a violent co-resident.

Medical Negligence Assist could supply you with an excellent medical negligence solicitor from our panel to handle your claim for neglect in a care home in Scotland. The money awarded for your claim could help to cover the costs of any medical treatment they may need as a result of their injuries and enable them to pay for the best possible standards of residential care, going forward.

Cancer Misdiagnosis

Unfortunately, cancer spreads and worsens over time, meaning that if a patient experiences a misdiagnosis or late diagnosis, this can make the disease harder to treat. If you went to your GP with unusual symptoms and had them dismissed as something more minor, or an oncologist misdiagnosed your cancer in a hospital, and your cancer worsened over time, you could be entitled to make a misdiagnosis of cancer negligence claim. In the very sad circumstances that you had a relative that died a preventable death because of misdiagnosis of cancer, you could be entitled to claim compensation on their behalf.

Call Medical Negligence Assist today, to see if you are entitled to make a claim for misdiagnosis of cancer.

Claim For Dentist Malpractice

Have you been injured, or had your existing dental condition made worse because of negligence on the part of a dentist in Inverness? Then you could be entitled to claim compensation for your injuries. Examples of dental negligence include restorative dentistry errors, extracting the wrong teeth, misdiagnosing serious diseases such as oral cancer, or nerve injuries, amongst others. If you have been injured or ill because of negligence in dentistry, call Medical Negligence Assist today and we could provide you with an excellent medical negligence solicitor to handle your claim. Call today for your free personal injury consultation and if you are entitled to claim, one of our panel of expert medical negligence solicitors will start working on your claim right away.

Doctors And GP Negligence

Examples of GP negligence can include a GP misdiagnosing a patient, so there is a delay in them getting the treatment they need, getting the results of a test wrong, or prescribing a patient the wrong dosage of medication. If you have been injured, made ill or had your pre-existing medical condition made worse because of GP negligence in Inverness, you could be entitled to claim compensation for your injuries.

Data For Instances Of Medical Negligence In Scottish NHS Trusts

Below we include a table in which we take information publicly provided by the NHS and which related to statistics for the Inverness area. This table contains information on how many claims were registered in this area, how many claims were made and how much compensation has been paid out in this period. Data in this table is correct at the time of publication.

NHS SCOTLAND BOARDVALUE OF PAYMENTS MADE £NUMBER OF PAYMENTS
NHS Highland1,091,62110

Inverness And The Highlands Hospitals

  • NHS Highland.
  • St Craig’s Psychiatric Hospital.
  • Raigmore Hospital.
  • The Royal Northern Infirmary.

Inverness No Win No Fee Medical Negligence Claims

At Medical Negligence Assist, we offer anyone looking to claim compensation for their injuries (and who is eligible to do so) the option to make a no win no fee medical negligence claim. This means that your solicitor will handle your claim without charging a fee upfront. Instead, they will charge you a fee if and when you win your claim. This means that for many of our clients this is the less stressful option for making a claim.

Are you interested in making a no win no fee medical negligence claim? Then call us today for your free consultation and to learn more about how no win no fee can help you.

Talk To Our Team

If you wish to claim for medical negligence in Inverness & the Highlands, call us today for your free consultation. One of our well-informed advisors will be happy to talk to you in-depth about your experiences and if you have the right to claim, we could assign an excellent solicitor from our panel to start working on your case of medical negligence. Call now for your free consultation, we’re looking forward to hearing from you.

Clinical Negligence Resources

Hospital Negligence Claims Explained

Misdiagnosis Compensation Claims

Raigmore Hospital
Old Perth Road,
Inverness,
IV2 3UJ
Website: www.nhshighland.scot.nhs.uk/Services/Pages/RaigmoreHospital.aspx

Written by Hana

Edited by LisM.