Making a Medical Negligence Claim

If you have suffered an injury or any unnecessary harm in the course of medical treatment, you may have suffered clinical negligence. Medical professionals such as doctors and nurses have a duty of care towards their patients; if they fail in that duty of care then they have not fulfilled their legal obligation. However, making medical negligence claims is an extremely serious matter; it is not the same as making a claim for personal injury caused in the workplace or in a road accident. In these kinds of claim it is usually rather simple to establish who was to blame, whilst it can be extremely difficult to prove that a medical professional is guilty of negligence.

In order to succeed in a clinical negligence claim, you are required to prove, through evidence provided by impartial medical experts, that the person responsible for your care was not performing at a competent level. It must be proven that serious errors were made in your treatment that no competent professional would have made; and that those errors either caused or at least contributed to the injury or harm that you are suffering.

As an area of law, clinical negligence is extremely complex. The rules, laws and procedures that govern clinical negligence are different from other forms of compensation claims because they involve professional medical personnel. If you find yourself in a situation where you are looking to claim, there is no way that you can find out much information alone – you will need to consult a team of specialist solicitors who will then handle the claim on your behalf. Although it is a very serious matter to pursue a clinical negligence claim, it is also negligent on your behalf not to – if you do not act on a case of possible negligence, someone else could suffer in the future as a result.

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