We know that the majority of the time, doctors and nurses do a great job at caring for us, but unfortunately, there are times when human error brought on by pressure and limited resources can cause the care we receive to fall below a reasonable standard. This is known as medical negligence and, as Raleys Solicitors point out, can have far reaching impacts on the lives of the victims including serious and painful injury. Some victims of medical negligence feel guilty about making a claim. There is no reason to: their suffering certainly warrants an apology and compensation.
Negligence surgery, misdiagnosis, delayed diagnosis and poor care are often factors in negligence cases according to Raleys solicitors.
If you believe that medical negligence may have caused you an injury, your first step should be to complain using the NHS complaints procedure. The complaints procedure does not aim to give compensation: rather it can provide apologies and explanations. Using this system can leave patients in a better position to decide whether or not to make hospital negligence claims.
This area of law is very complex and it is therefore important to contact an experienced solicitor. The first step is for the solicitor to liaise with an independent medical expert to establish whether or not you have a claim.
If you do have the right to claim then you and your solicitor must demonstrate that the care you received fell below the standard expected of a competent medical professional. If the defendant can show that many other practitioners would have carried out your treatment in the same way or made the same decisions then they cannot be found guilty of negligence.
Then, in order for a claim to be successful it must be proven that the negligence was the direct cause of the negligence. That means showing that if it hadn’t been for the negligence the injury would not have happened anyway.
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