By Stephen Dallas. Last updated 28th January 2025. Before you engage medical negligence solicitors for Billericay to make a compensation claim, you should take a good look at all the useful information to be found on this page. You will find advice on how to choose the best solicitor, and also an explanation of how medical negligence is defined and how it can occur. We’ll also give some outlines of the most typical types of negligence cases.
All of the outlines you will see below share three things in common, and these are:
- The doctor or another medical professional who caused harm to the patient through medical negligence clearly had a responsibility to safeguard the patient’s health.
- A failure to meet the responsibility of safeguarding the patient’s health directly lead to them coming to harm in some way.
- The failure to meet the responsibility of caring for the patient’s health could have been avoided.
Medical negligence occurs when a doctor or medical professional caring for a patient, through accident, oversight, mistake or carelessness, causes harm to the patient instead. This negligence can take many forms:
- Failure to diagnose or misdiagnosing a serious medical condition.
- Accidents and errors that occur during a surgical procedure causing harm to the patient.
- Badly administered treatment.
- Providing incorrect treatment.
- Causing preventable delays with providing crucial treatment which results in a negative impact on the patient’s health.
- Prescribing the wrong medication.
- Allowing the patient to become the victim of an accident due to insufficient supervisory care being made available.
Legal Expert can support medical negligence claims for residents of Billericay. We have a track record of making successful claims for our clients in a wide variety of different medical negligence cases that goes back more than three decades. We offer the simplest option for claiming negligence compensation.
What Should I Think About When Making a Medical Negligence Claim?
Before you allow any legal firm to begin making a medical negligence claim on your behalf, you need to make sure that they are experienced and skilled in winning clinical negligence cases. Any decent solicitor worth considering will be able to:
- Prove that they have successfully won cases like your one in the recent past.
- Offer to take on your claim under a No Win No Fee agreement.
- Provide you with access to local services such as a medical professional to produce an independent medical opinion to be used in support of making your claim.
Legal Expert has a much easier option for people who would rather not contact several firms of solicitors to choose the best one. You can use our national claims service, and as part of this service, we’ll provide you with some free legal advice. We’ll also put you in contact with the best legal team to take on your case successfully.
Do I Need To Work With Medical Negligence Solicitors In Billericay?
It makes no difference at all where your solicitor is located. Any good solicitor will allow you to contact them via email, etc. You will be able to keep in touch with them wherever they are.
If you would prefer to deal with somebody local, then the Legal Expert team covering the Billericay area can make a house call if you wish.
Claims Our Medical Negligence Solicitors For Billericay Could Help With
Legal Expert has a clinical negligence team covering the Billericay area that has plenty of experience in claiming medical negligence compensation. Below we have presented several overviews of the most typical types of medical negligence claims we work on. If your particular case doesn’t fit with any of these, then give us a call so we can answer any questions you have and explain how our claims service works for your case.
- Hospital Negligence.
- GP Medical Negligence.
- Cancer Medical Negligence.
- Birth Injury Negligence.
Making a No Win No Fee Compensation Claim
If you’re looking for Billericay medical negligence solicitors, you should firstly contact us and discuss your circumstances to find out whether you’re eligible for compensation.
If you are, one of our No Win No Fee medical negligence solicitors for Billericay could help you. They can do many things to help you through the claims process, such as:
- Collect your evidence.
- Send correspondence on your behalf.
- Ensure the compensation is accurately valued.
- Ensure the claims time limits are adhered to.
- Explain legal jargon.
- Send you regular case updates.
In addition, our medical negligence lawyers for Billericay provide the above services under a Conditional Fee Agreement (CFA). This means that as their client, you don’t pay anything for their services:
- Upfront.
- While the claims process is ongoing.
- If the claim is unsuccessful.
Instead, if the claim is successful, your solicitor can take a success fee from your compensation. The success fee is a small, legally-capped percentage.
If a CFA appeals to you, please contact us today at a time that suits you.
How to Start Your Medical Negligence Claim
The initial stages of a clinical negligence claim are very simple, all you need to do is call our clinical negligence advice helpline on 0800 073 8804. Once we’ve taken all the info we need about your case, we will offer you some free legal advice on what to do next.
Useful Links
Claiming for medical negligence during a breast reduction procedure
At the above link, we have published a detailed guide on claiming for negligence that happened during a breast enlargement.
Medical information about breast enlargements
Here you’ll find full details of the breast enlargement process and the risks involved published by the NHS.
How are women with breast implants screened?
UK Government information on the process of screening women with breast enlargements.
Local Billericay Medical Centres
Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Nethermayne
Basildon
Essex
SS16 5NL
Tel: 01268 524900
Web: www.basildonandthurrock.nhs.uk
Oakdin Clinic
58 Laindon Road
Billericay
Essex
CM12 9LD
Tel: 01277 623055
Billericay Health Centre
Stock Road
Essex
CM12 0BJ
Tel: 01277 658071
Thank you for reading our guide on hiring medical negligence solicitors for Billericay.
