While all surgical procedures inherently carry risks, it’s imperative that you are adequately informed of these risks before undergoing surgery. While some surgical complications may arise as non-negligent occurrences, in certain cases, they may stem from surgical errors.
When you or a loved one has suffered harm or injury due to medical negligence, it’s essential to understand your rights and the process for making a claim. This blog provides a comprehensive guide to the steps to claim for medical negligence.
Medical negligence, often referred to as clinical negligence, occurs when a healthcare professional provides care that falls below the expected standard, resulting in harm or injury to the patient.
Medical negligence can take various forms, and understanding these forms is crucial for patients and their families. This blog aims to shed light on common types of medical negligence.
Sepsis is a killer that few people have heard of; however, it causes more deaths globally per year than bowel, breast, and pancreatic cancer combined and almost 25 per cent of fatalities are preventable.
Ongoing Investigation into Allegations of Cover-Up and Medical Negligence at Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton.
The issue of whether a person who witnesses a violent and/or shocking event caused by the negligence of another can claim compensation for any psychiatric injury they have suffered has always presented a challenge for the Courts.
Despite the incredible advances in medical care and treatment and the dedication of healthcare professionals to their patients, human frailty being as it is means that mistakes can happen and in the most tragic scenarios, medical negligence can cause death.
When it comes to undiagnosed cancer cases, the numbers are truly shocking. It is estimated that one million cancer diagnoses were missed across Europe in the last two years, and a new report suggests the impact of Covid-19 could set back European cancer results by almost a decade.
This Medical Negligence Claim Guide gives information on medical negligence claims.
It explains the patients’ rights who suffer surgical or medical negligence errors.
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