Medical Negligence Solicitors For Hillingdon- No Win No Fee Claims

Daniel Peterson. Last updated on 1st December 2021. On this page, you will find a full and detailed guide to choosing a good team of medical negligence solicitors for the Hillingdon area who can process a medical negligence claim for you.

You should be able to extract all of the information you need, to learn why you might have a valid reason to make a claim, and how to choose a good legal firm to help you with this. But first, we need to address the question, what is medical negligence?

Negligence, in a medical environment, can take many forms. It can be caused by accident, error, omission, or lack of diligence. Typical examples of negligence would include:

• Prescribing the wrong medication.
• Administering the wrong dose of a medication.
• Misdiagnosing an illness.
• Diagnosing an illness late.
• Causing an injury to a patient due to surgical error.
• Administering the wrong treatment.
• Incorrectly administering the right treatment.
• Allowing a patient to be harmed due to inadequate supervision.

As you can see, there are many ways that negligence can take place. However, not all harm to a patient is automatically seen as negligence. Some treatments, such as chemotherapy, cause harm to the patient, but as part of an overall treatment plan, it can result in a positive effect on the patient’s health.

Contact Information

Getting in touch with us directly is the best way to receive accurate and helpful guidance. If our advisors think that you could have a valid claim then we could connect you with one of our medical negligence solicitors for the Hillingdon area.

There’s more than one way you can reach us.

• You can call us on 0800 073 8804
• Write to us about your claim online
• Chat to us using the pop-up window in the corner

Defining Medical Negligence

Medical negligence solicitors Hillingdon

Every medical professional has an inherent duty of care, never to harm any patient due to error, accident, omission or lack of care. When a medical professional fails in this duty of care in a way that could have been avoided and causes harm to a patient, then clinical negligence could have occurred.

When a medical professional is accused of negligence, and the statement above is true, then a panel of doctors will evaluate the negligence complaint. They will decide whether the incident was negligent or not. If they decide that it was, you should have a pretty easy task of making a claim. But if they decide that it wasn’t, then your solicitor will need to present evidence to prove that it was.

As you can see, making a negligence claim is not a simple process. Using the help of specialist medical negligence solicitors for Hillingdon, such as Legal Expert, may help you to have the best chance of your claim being successful. If you would like to know more about how we can help you, then please speak to one of our team on the number at the end of this guide.

How To Choose The Right Medical Negligence Solicitors For Hillingdon Claims

If you need to make a negligence claim, then choosing the right medical negligence solicitors in the UK to process it for you is important. The more equipped your solicitor is at processing a claim, the higher your chance of winning the maximum level of compensation you deserve. However, finding a good legal team can be difficult, especially if you have no experience in dealing with medical negligence solicitors for Hillington or other areas. These three questions below are a good way to vet any legal firm you are considering, if they cannot answer yes to each of them, then they may not be the best choice.

1. Have you won compensation successfully in a claim that is similar to my own in the last year?
2. Can you manage my claim under an agreement whereby your fee is conditional on you being successful?
3. Can you arrange additional local services for me, such as arranging a free medical examination in Hillingdon to support my claim?

Legal Expert can answer yes to each of these questions. We specialise in getting claimants the maximum amount of compensation possible for their type of claim. To learn how we do this, and to get your claim started, speak to one of our team on the number at the bottom of this page today.

Should I Use A Local Medical Negligence Solicitor?

Many people believe that there is some compelling legal reason, why they have to use medical negligence solicitors for Hillington if that’s where they were injured.. This is not the case; you are free to use any lawyer you wish, it doesn’t matter where they are located. Now that you know this, it is important to be aware of your options. Using a local solicitor might be easy, but you would be overlooking the advantages of using a specialist legal firm, that focuses on accident and injury claims.

Legal Expert can help people in Hillingdon and all across Great Britain, claim the maximum amount of compensation possible in their negligence claim. This is what we specialise in, and what we excel at. We can also arrange for certain value-added services free of charge in the Hillingdon area. For example, we can arrange for you to be examined by a medical professional, and we would submit their findings as evidence in support of your claim. The closest medical professionals in the Hillingdon area who could perform this examination are in the table below:

Read Reviews Relating To Medical Negligence Solicitors For Hillingdon

Another good way of cutting down on the effort needed to vet a long list of possible legal firms, is to read the reviews people have left after they have used their services. If you do find these kinds of online reviews, there are a few facts you will need to compare across all of the reviews, and these include:

• How old is the review, and is it still fresh enough to be relevant?
• What kind of claim does the review cover, and is it similar enough to your own to be relevant?
• Was the claim successful?
• Did the solicitor offer some form of Conditional Fee Agreement (CFA)?
• How much, as a percentage of the compensation received, did the solicitor take as their fee?
• Was the reviewer’s experience a positive one, and do they recommend the legal firm?

Information such as this can be correlated across a number of reviews, and help you to trim down your shortlist. This is still going to take some time to do though. If you want a quicker, simpler way to find a good legal team, speak to one of the Legal Expert team on the number at the bottom of this guide. They will go over the details of your claim with you, let you know what your legal options are, and then propose a simple and effective way to move your claim forward today.

NHS Medical Negligence Statistics

The NHS releases figures on a yearly basis relating to how much they award annually to victims of medical negligence. The latest annual report for 2020/21 shows that the NHS had to spend over £2,209 million over this period.

These figures include claims at all NHS facilities including, but not limited to:

• Hospitals
• Dentists
• GP Surgeries

The amounts mentioned in the graph below are from the whole country combined, not just from Hillingon facilities. Numbers for private healthcare claims are not included either. This doesn’t mean you can’t make a claim if your injuries were sustained whilst receiving private healthcare. You can. The relevant statistics are just more difficult to access.

Medical negligence solicitors Hillingdon

What Claims Do Our Medical Negligence Solicitors For Hillington Handle?

Our expert lawyers work with clients up and down the country on various medical negligence claims. In the next few sections, we will elaborate on some of the more common ones that they handle.

Cancer Medical Negligence Compensation Claims

Legal Expert has helped a lot of people with cancer negligence claims, especially breast cancer negligence claims. The most common type of cancer negligence claims involves some type of misdiagnosis or late diagnosis. Because cancer is an illness that needs to be treated as quickly as possible to give the patient the best chance of survival, if treatment is delayed through a diagnosis error, then the patient’s life is put at risk.

If you have lost a loved one because a mistake was made with the diagnosis of their condition, Legal Expert can help you to get the compensation you are entitled to. Call and speak to one of our team on the number at the bottom of this page, to find out more. You might also like to read over this guide:

A guide to claiming for cancer misdiagnosis

Birth Trauma Medical Negligence Compensation Claims

Unfortunately, one of the most common of all types of negligence claims is clinical negligence birth injury. Around 90% of all first-time mothers suffer a birth injury of some description. The majority of these injuries are not caused by negligence, but some are. Injuries such as perineal tears, torn pelvic floor muscles and even death in extreme cases. Injuries to the newborn can include cuts that leave permanent scars, broken bones and severe conditions that are caused by reduced oxygen flow during the birth.

If your baby or yourself, was injured due to negligence during childbirth, Legal Expert can assist you in making a claim. Speak to one of our team on the number at the end of this page to find out how. You can also take a look at this guide:

A guide to claiming for midwife negligence during childbirth

GP Medical Negligence Compensation Claims

As your first port of call whenever you are feeling under the weather, you are forced to put your trust in your GP. Most of the time, this is fine. But from time to time they do make mistakes. Many of these mistakes are completely harmless, but some can leave the patient with some dire consequences, such as failing to diagnose early-stage cancer correctly.

Legal Expert can assist you if you have been harmed by a mistake that your GP made. If you speak to one of our team on the number at the end of this page, they will explain our claims service to you. You can also read this guide, which might be useful to you:

A guide to claiming for GP negligence

Care Home Negligence Compensation Claims

When it comes to suing a care home for negligence, you need to understand that like any establishment that cares for patients, the care home and its members of staff all have a duty of care towards every resident, at all times. Legally, the care home must provide a very specific minimum level of care around the clock. Unfortunately, due to issues such as staff being overworked or having insufficient training, this level does drop from time to time. If it does, and it leads to a resident being harmed, there may be a case for care home negligence claim.

Legal Expert can help you to make a care home negligence claim for a family member that has been harmed while residing in one. Speak to one of our team on the number at the end of this page to find out how. Or you could check out this guide:

A guide to claiming for negligence in a care home

Dental Negligence Compensation Claims

Your dentist, as well as the dental nurses, has the same duty of care towards you as any other medical professional. If your dentist does anything that causes you harm, then you would have a valid reason to make a compensation claim.

Legal Expert are dental negligence solicitors who Hillingdon residents can trust to get them the most compensation possible. Speak to one of our team on the number at the end of this guide to get your claim started today. You may also like to take a look at this more detailed guide to dental negligence claims:

A guide to claiming for dental negligence

Hospital Medical Negligence Compensation Claims

Whenever you make a hospital negligence complaint, the hospital will have to investigate the incident and decide whether it was indeed, a case of negligence. Obviously, no hospital wants to admit that negligence took place, so your solicitor is going to need to be able to prove how you were harmed.

Legal Expert has the experience needed to take on large healthcare organisations such as the National Health Service, or private healthcare operators, and win you the compensation you are entitled to. Speak to one of our team on the number at the bottom of the page to get started with your claim today.

How Do I Make A Medical Negligence Claim?

There are a number of processes you’ll need to go through during the process of claiming compensation. Here, we’ll lay out some of the more important ones. However, these aren’t the only things you’ll have to do. There will be other tasks you’ll have to carry out to give yourself the best chance of success when making your claim.

Some will be legally required, whilst others will just be advised. However, the more thoroughly you address your claim, the more your likelihood of success increases.

Main An Official Complaint

You will need to approach those in charge of the medical facility where you were injured due to medical negligence. This step needs to be taken regardless of whether you received your care through the NHS or a private healthcare company, The only difference is that for a private healthcare facility, you’ll have to speak to the owner or manager.

For NHS facilities, there will be no owner. However, there will still be a manager of someone similarly senior. You should inform of the effect on your health that the medical negligence you’ve experienced has caused. Along with this, tell them that you intend to make a claim for compensation as a result.

It’s possible that at this stage they could make you an early settlement offer. You need to be cautious. This initial amount could be quite low when compared with the upper potential of what your claim could be worth.

We recommend that you seek the advice of medical negligence solicitors for the Hillingdon area before you accept any settlement offers.

Gather Evidence

You’ll need to be able prove that you are telling the truth about what happened. You can do this by acquiring pieces of evidence that can back your claims. The more evidence you have, the better.

Some examples include:

• Medical records – these will be made up of important information such as the treatments you receive and any medications you are prescribed. You have the legal right to access your medical records. In cases of children being injured due to medical negligence, their parent or guardian generally have the right to access the child’s medical records to use as evidence. However, this can differ on a case by case basis.
• Photographs – it’s a good idea to have a visual record of your injuries. If your injuries are psychological then this is isn’t always possible. However, things like broken bones and lacerations are easily captured in photographic form.
• Witness statements – perhaps a friend or family member was present when the negligence behaviour took place. If this is the case, they could submit a written statement as a form of evidence.

For more examples of example you could use, get in touch with us today.

Seeking Legal Advice

Whilst there is no legal requirement for you to hire legal help, we heavily recommend it. If you aren’t familiar with the process of making a claim then things can become confusing. Our medical negligence solicitors for Hillingdon are very experienced in handling these kinds of claims. Reach out to us today.

No Win No Fee Medical Negligence Claims

Legal Expert can act as your No Win No Fee solicitor for medical negligence claims. When we do, we don’t charge you anything to start working on your claim. We also don’t charge you anything while we are processing your claim.

And if we fail to get you any compensation at all, we still won’t charge you anything. When we do win compensation for you though, we will take our fee straight out of the money we have received on your behalf, and then send the rest to you.

Contact Us To Claim Compensation

Do you believe you have a valid reason to make a claim for a case of clinical negligence? Do you need some help deciding whether you have a valid claim or not? Speak to Legal Expert on 0800 073 8804 today. One of our team will answer any questions you might have, and then arrange to get your claim started right away.

Helpful Local Medical Services And Resources

Hillingdon Hospital
Pield Heath Road
Uxbridge
UB8 3NN
Opening hours: 24 hours.

BMI Bishops Wood Hospital
Rickmansworth Road
Northwood
Middlesex
HA6 2JW
Opening hours: 24 hours.

Hillingdon Independent Group Online
West London Medical Centre
20, Pield Heath Road
Hillingdon
UB8 3NG
Web: www.hillingdongp.org.uk/index.asp

Court Drive Dental Practice
1 Court Drive
Uxbridge
UB10 0BJ
Web: www.courtdrivedentalpractice.co.uk

Further Helpful Resources

• Horsham Medical Negligence Solicitors
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• Medical Negligence Solicitors For Ipswich
• Jarrow Medical Negligence Solicitors
• Keighley Medical Negligence Solicitors
• Kettering Medical Negligence Solicitors
• Kings Lynn Medical Negligence Solicitors
• Kingston upon Hull Medical Negligence Solicitors
• Kingswinford Medical Negligence Solicitors
• How to Report a Negligent Doctor
• Tummy Tuck Negligence Claims

Thank you for reading our guide on medical negligence solicitors for the Hillingdon area.