Medical negligence, sometimes also referred to by the name of medical malpractice, clinical negligence, or clinical malpractice is when a patient has suffered unnecessary harm to their health, such as an avoidable illness or injury as a result of a medical practitioner failing to properly carry out their duties and uphold their duty of care to their patient. In such cases the victim may be able to make a medical negligence claim against for damages to compensate them for the effect that the negligence has had on them. You may be searching for “medical negligence solicitors in Tower Hamlets” to handle your claim however we may have another solution for you. Medical Negligence Assist could provide you with a medical negligence solicitor who can cover the Tower Hamlets area.
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- Things To Consider When Picking A Medical Claims Solicitor
- Do I Have To Use A Solicitor In East London?
- Medical Examinations May Be Conducted By Our Panel Of Doctors
- Reviews Of Solicitors Covering East London
- Claims For Clinical Negligence In Tower Hamlets You Could Make
- Negligence In Surgical Procedures
- Birth Negligence By Midwives Or Doctors
- Hospital Negligence
- Care Home Neglect Cases
- Harm Caused By Doctor Mistake
- Dentist Negligence Mistakes
- Harmful Mistakes In Cancer Care
- Tower Hamlets And Canary Wharf NHS Trust Medical Claims Statistics
- Hospitals Serving The Borough Of Tower Hamlets
- Will My Claim Be No Win No Fee?
- Start Your Claim Today
- Additional Information
Things To Consider When Picking A Medical Claims Solicitor
Picking the right medical negligence solicitor for your case can make the difference between success and failure. You could read reviews online of medical negligence lawyers and speak to people you know about their experience of working with solicitors. We advise that you also take the opportunity to seek out free legal advice, which you can gain from calling us here at Medical Negligence Assist.
Do I Have To Use A Solicitor In East London?
We would like to stress that there is no requirement for you to use solicitors in East London or medical negligence solicitors in Tower Hamlets for dealing with claims for medical negligence in the borough of Tower Hamlets. Medical Negligence Assist is not based in Tower hamlets, but our panel of expert medical negligence solicitors can cover the Tower Hamlets area. You are not limited to medical negligence solicitors ‘in my area’. With new advancements all the time of communication technology solicitors and claimants can communicate in multiple ways meaning that a solicitor can be based anywhere in the UK and conduct a claim for anywhere in the country.
Medical Examinations May Be Conducted By Our Panel Of Doctors
Our panel of expert medical negligence solicitors work with a panel of doctors from across the UK including a number of doctors in London to provide clients with medical examinations. Medical examinations serve the purpose of determining what exactly you have suffered from as a result of being a victim of medical negligence and will provide the evidence that your medical negligence solicitor will present to support your medical negligence claim.
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Reviews Of Solicitors Covering East London
Medical negligence solicitors reviews may be helpful in the process of comparing different solicitors. We advise that you read through online reviews of solicitors in east London and further afield as you make your decision to choose a medical negligence solicitor. You will benefit from this by being able to gain a picture of which solicitors appear to have the best record in winning cases for their clients, which ones appear to have the most experience and expertise at dealing with claims very similar to yours and which ones were regarded by their clients as being easiest to work with.
By looking through the market you can also find out which solicitors offer no win no fee claims deals. This is important as it relieves you of the financial burden and is a measure of the medical negligence lawyers confidence in winning your case. You are also best off seeking out free legal advice, such as that which you can get by contacting us, to answer any questions you may have about making a claim, for example you may be wondering how long a legal claim case may take, will it be affected by a medical negligence claims time limit, or is it difficult to prove medical malpractice.
When your case is concluded, regardless of the outcome, we would like you to leave medical negligence reviews of your own in order to assist future claimants in choosing a medical negligence lawyer for their own medical negligence claims.
Claims For Clinical Negligence In Tower Hamlets You Could Make
Our panel of medical negligence solicitors can cover the Tower Hamlets area and can assist you with any medical negligence claim you may want to make in. These could include, but aren’t limited to, claims against care and nursing homes for neglect of vulnerable residents, claims against hospitals, claims against GP practices and claims against dentists and dental practices.
Negligence In Surgical Procedures
Surgical procedures can be carried out for either medical necessity or for cosmetic reasons in either NHS hospitals or in private hospitals. Surgery necessarily carries risks, which the patient much be made fully aware of before consenting to the procedure, even if the operation is carried out properly. However in cases of surgical negligence the patient could be harmed by the doctors performing the surgery due if they breach their duty of care or surgical code of conduct. This could range from failure to properly administer anesthetic, damage to tissues and organs, failure to properly close up incisions and in extreme circumstances doctors may inadvertently operate on the wrong organ, or leave surgical equipment such as swaps and clamps inside the patient’s body after they have been closed up.
Birth Negligence By Midwives Or Doctors
Medical malpractice arises if either the mother or the baby suffers harm because doctors have not adequately carried out their duties by monitoring the mother and babies health and reacting to signs of any health issues, or signs of distress and other issues during childbirth itself. Mothers could suffer from excessive blood loss or vaginal tearing during childbirth and babies could suffer bone fractures or hypoxia resulting in cerebral palsy during childbirth as a result of birth negligence.
Hospital Negligence
Hospital’s and their staff have a duty of care to all those who come into the hospital as patients. If a patient falls ill as a result of inadequate hygiene causing an infection, if they suffer from the effects of inadequate nursing care such as a failure to provide adequate food and fluids or if they don’t regularly change dressings when required causing infection, then that patient could be entitled to then make a medical negligence claim.
Our panel of expert medical negligence solicitors can help make claims in cases of both private negligence and NHS negligence so they could help you make a claim against either.
Care Home Neglect Cases
Similar to hospital neglect claims, claims could be brought against caring and nursing homes in which residents have suffered harm as a result of substandard care. Those living in care homes are often dependent on staff for things like washing and dressing, eating their meals and staying hydrated, taking their medications and going to the toilet. If these things are neglected then they can suffer harm as a result. They are vulnerable to illnesses and infections without close care and attention and can suffer injuries from falls and accidents without being supervised by staff. Contact us today so we can give you free legal advice about making a medical negligence claim in the borough of Tower Hamlets against a care home or to be put in touch with a personal injury lawyer from our panel of expert medical negligence solicitors.
Harm Caused By Doctor Mistakes
GP’s are the first health professionals most people see when they are affected by the symptoms of an illness and they play a vital role in ensuring that a patients symptoms are diagnosed and treated correctly. As such doctors mistakes can seriously derail your medical treatment and adversely affect your health outcomes. If Doctors fail to correctly or quickly diagnose your symptoms, prescribe an incorrect or inappropriate treatment or fail to refer you to a specialist and your health is affected, if their actions are proved to be negligent it may be classed as GP negligence. If a doctor has failed to diagnose or treat you correctly without a reasonable cause then you could have grounds for making a medical negligence claim for any unnecessary harm that is suffered.
Dentist Negligence Mistakes
Canary Wharf medical negligence claims can also include dental malpractice. Dental practitioners are also liable for any harm caused to their patients by malpractice. If a dentist makes mistakes during a procedure or fails to follow proven procedures and a patient suffers cosmetic damage, damage to gums, teeth and nerves it could not only result in pain and suffering but also financial losses.
Harmful Mistakes In Cancer Care
Our panel of expert medical negligence solicitors could assist you in making a cancer negligent claim if a medical professional negligently misdiagnosed your cancer and it caused you to suffer medical harm as a result. If your symptoms are not diagnosed quickly enough, or in some cases if the cancer was mistaken for another disease then the treatment you receive may be inadequate or come to late to prevent the cancer and its effects from worsening, possibly with fatal consequences. In some cases the doctor may not be at fault, but if you feel that your condition could have been diagnosed much earlier than it was and the delay in diagnosis has caused you to suffer more harm unnecessarily then you may have grounds to make a medical negligence claim.
Barts Health NHS Trust Medical Claims Statistics
Below is a table, and a link to the source, of medical negligence claims statistics against the local NHS healthcare trust.
Name Of NHS Trust Or Authority | CNST No of Claims | CNST no. of incidents | CNST payments (£) |
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Barts Health NHS Trust | 142 | 7 | 32,840,259 |
Hospitals Serving The Borough Of Tower Hamlets
- The Royal London Hospital
- Barts NHS Trust
Will My Claim Be No Win No fee?
One of the most important questions you can ask when dealing with a potential medical negligence solicitor for your case is “will my claim be no win no fee?” A No win No fee claim, otherwise known as a Conditional Fee Arrangement, is when a solicitor agrees not to charge you for their time and expenses if your claim is unsuccessful while also agreeing to take a certain fixed share of whatever compensation you receive if your claim is successful as payment. This is important as it effectively means you will have the personal injury solicitors services entirely free of charge if the case does not result in you receiving compensation, but it also means that the solicitor is highly confident that your case will be successful if they take your case on using this agreement.
Start Your Claim Today
If you have been affected by any of the medical negligence issues above, or any that we might not have mentioned, then contact us today. You may be eligible to make a personal injury claim. Remember that there is a medical negligence claims time limit which limits how long you have to make a claim, waste no time in getting touch with us. Our lines are open 7 days a week between 24 hour or you can fill in a form here.
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Edited by LisM.