Sutton-in-Ashfield Medical Negligence Solicitors – No Win No Fee Claims

By Marlon Cooke. Last Updated 29th July 2022. Welcome to this guide which will help you understand the benefits of choosing the best medical negligence solicitors for Sutton-in-Ashfield. An experienced solicitor could help you with many clinical negligence claims such as those for delayed treatment, surgical errors or birth injury.

In this guide, you can find out how to find the right solicitor for your case, the types of claims our solicitors could handle, and how your compensation may be calculated.

However, if you have any questions whilst or after reading, you can contact us on the following:

• Phone us: 0800 073 8804
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Choose A Section Below To Find Out More About Medical Negligence Solicitors For Sutton-in-Ashfield

1. What Is Clinical Or Medical Negligence?
2. How Could A Clinical Negligence Solicitor Help You Seek Compensation?
3. How To Find Specialist Medical Negligence Solicitors For Sutton-in-Ashfield
4. What Type Of Claims Could Our Medical Negligence Solicitors For Sutton-in-Ashfield represent?
5. Medical Negligence Claims Calculator
6. Successful Medical Negligence Claims Against NHS Trusts In The Sutton-in-Ashfield Area
7. No Win No Fee Claims For Medical Malpractice Or Negligence
8. Talk To Us Today About Working With Our Medical Negligence Solicitors For Sutton-in-Ashfield
9. Further Medical Negligence Guides And Helpful Resources

What Is Clinical Or Medical Negligence?

Medical negligence, clinical negligence, and medical malpractice are terms used to describe a medical professional failing to provide a patient with the correct standard of care. As a result, the patient may have experienced sustainable or further harm.

Some of the types of negligence that could occur in a medical setting include might include:

• Medical misdiagnosis of a condition: A doctor may have failed to correctly diagnose you with a chest infection despite you presenting clear symptoms. As a result, you may have received delayed treatment for your original condition causing you to develop pneumonia.
• Providing the incorrect course of treatment: A doctor may have failed to correctly diagnose your fractured wrist despite the obvious symptoms you exhibited. As a result, the doctor may have prescribed treatment to heal a sprain, delaying your original condition from healing correctly.
• Surgical error: A cosmetic surgeon performing a tummy tuck may have failed to follow the correct post-operative protocols. As a result, the patient may have developed an infection that could have otherwise been avoided.
• Failure to inform a patient of risks: A surgeon may have been reasonably required to make their patient aware of the risk of blood clots before surgery. The patient may have then experienced blood clots after undergoing surgery, causing them further harm. In these instances, the patient may not have consented to the surgery if they had known about the risks.

Medical negligence could impact both a patient’s physical and mental health. For that reason, you may be able to seek compensation for any physical and psychological harm you experience.

An experienced team of medical negligence solicitors for the Sutton-in-Ashfield area could help you build a strong case. For more information, see the section below.

How Could A Clinical Negligence Solicitor Help You Seek Compensation?

A solicitor who deals with medical negligence claims could help you gather the evidence you need to support your claim.

For instance, they could help you obtain relevant medical evidence to determine whether you received the minimum standard of care, such as:

• Doctor records
• Hospital reports
• Prescriptions
• Treatment plans
• Details of any diagnosis you received

Additionally, they could arrange for you to attend an independent medical assessment in your local area. The assessment could provide a report on the current state and full extent of your condition, including the long term impact it may have had on you.

How Is Medical Negligence Proven?

Although medical evidence is important when determining whether negligence occurred, it isn’t the only factor that will be considered.

Instead, the Bolam test may also be used to assess whether the care you were given met the required standard. The test often involves a group of healthcare professionals with training in a relevant field evaluating your case.

We understand the process of seeking medical negligence compensation may seem complex. However, an experienced solicitor could help take you through the different stages of the claims process to help you build a strong case and get the compensation you deserve.

Our solicitors all have experience handling similar types of claims and could represent your case. If you’d like to learn more, contact our team on the number above.

How To Find Specialist Medical Negligence Solicitors For Sutton-in-Ashfield

When seeking a clinical negligence award, you may wish to use the best medical negligence solicitors for Sutton-in-Ashfield to represent your claim.

If so, whether you have a claim against the NHS or private medical facility, there are some factors to consider before making your final decision, such as:

1. The solicitor’s previous experience in handling medical negligence claims.
2. Whether the solicitor could take on your claim under a No Win No Fee agreement.
3. The other services they could provide such as arranging for you to attend an additional medical exam in your local area.

We understand you may have your own set of criteria you wish a solicitor or legal firm to meet. However, these factors are a good starting point to ensure you choose the best solicitor to help you seek compensation.

Sutton Solicitors – Check Solicitors Reviews

As there are a number of solicitors and firms who can all promise high quality services, reading reviews can be a way to gain insight into the real experience clients have had with them. Several sites offer reviews of solicitors written by people who may have undergone claims similar to yours, or were experiencing the legal process for the first time. The reviews they offer can help you find the best solicitor for you and your needs. You can learn more about:

• The solicitor’s level of involvement
• How well the clients felt they were prioritised
• How easy they might have made the claims process feel

You are welcome to use these sites to find the right solicitor for you. However, we would be remiss to mention that our site does feature a client reviews page, featuring reviews from our previous clients.

You should seek the best solicitor to manage your claim, whether or not they are solicitors in Sutton. Please speak to an adviser to see how our solicitors could help you.

Do I Have To Use Local Medical Negligence Solicitors For Sutton-in-Ashfield?

In the past, people often felt that they should use local medical negligence solicitors in the Sutton-in-Ashfield area to work on their claim, such as a GP negligence case. The reason being, so they could more easily keep in touch with the solicitor about their claim.

However, there are other ways you can keep in touch with your solicitor, lawyer or legal firm, such as over the phone or by email. For that reason, there is no real benefit to choosing a solicitor in your local area.

Instead, you could focus on finding a solicitor with experience handling medical negligence claims similar to your own.

Our team works with doctors across the country to help facilitate any additional medical exams you may need to attend. We have experts based in the following areas:

Shan Jahanzeb
Mansfield Clinic,
14 Woodhouse Road,
Mansfield,
Nottingham,
NG18 2AD

Jahanzeb Noor Ali
296 Mansfield Road,
Nottingham,
NG5 2BT

It’s important to note that these are just two of the experts we work with around the Nottingham area. For that reason, your case may be handled by one of our other local medical experts.

What Type Of Claims Could Our Medical Negligence Solicitors For Sutton-in-Ashfield represent?

Medical negligence covers a wide range of instances for which you could seek compensation. However, our solicitors have experience handling a variety of different medical and clinical negligence claims, such as:

• NHS surgery compensation claims
• NHS medical negligence claims
• Claims against private doctors and medical facilities
• Medical negligence eye claims
• Misdiagnosis claims
• Surgical negligence claims
• Optician negligence claim
• Cosmetic surgery negligence

We have looked at some other medical negligence claims we could take on in more detail in the following sections.

However, if you don’t see your specific situation mentioned below, please contact our team to determine whether we could help.

Cancer Misdiagnosis Claims

Cancer is an extremely serious disease that comes in many different forms, such as bladder cancer or breast cancer.

If you visit your doctor with cancer symptoms, they must take reasonable steps to refer you for further tests or arrange for you to see a specialist. However, in some cases, your doctor may fail to meet the minimum standard of care, causing you further harm.

For instance, your doctor may have arranged an urgent referral for you to receive additional tests after you exhibited cancer symptoms. However, there may have been an unreasonable delay with your urgent referral. As a result, cancer may have progressed further, causing your symptoms to worsen.

Alternatively, you may have experienced a misdiagnosis of cancer due to a cancer specialist failing to arrange for you to undergo the correct tests. As a result, you may have been diagnosed with the wrong condition causing you to receive the incorrect treatment and your original condition to worsen.

Call our team for more information on how our medical negligence solicitors for Sutton-in-Ashfield could help.

Childbirth Negligence Claims

Negligence on the part of a midwife, nurse, doctor, or another trained medical professional during labour could result in the mother or child suffering an injury. Medical negligence claims for a birth injury could be made for the pain and suffering experienced as a result.

Examples of the physical or psychological harm a mother or baby could sustain due to receiving the incorrect care could include:

• A midwife may have failed to diagnose you with prenatal depression despite you presenting clear symptoms of the condition throughout your pregnancy. As a result, you may have experienced avoidable psychological harm due to receiving delayed treatment.
• A doctor may have incorrectly used forceps during labour, causing the baby to sustain a skull fracture.

Contact our team for more information on medical negligence claims for birth injuries. An advisor could determine whether one of our solicitors could help.

GP Negligence Claims

In some cases, GP’s and doctors may provide the correct standard of care. However, there are situations in which the standard of care falls below what could be reasonably expected. As a result of their negligence or malpractice, you may experience harm that could have otherwise been avoided.

For instance, your GP may have failed to prescribe you the correct medication dosage. As a result, you may have experienced complications of an overdose.

If you have experienced a similar form of GP negligence, our medical negligence solicitors for Sutton-in-Ashfield could help. For more information, call the number above.

Nursing And Care Home Malpractice Or Negligence

It’s not unreasonable for residents of a care home to expect to receive the required standard of care. However, there are circumstances where the care you receive may fall below the expected standard resulting in further or avoidable harm.

For instance, a nurse may have failed to provide the correct medication to the correct patients. As a result, the patient may have experienced avoidable harm in the form of complications from receiving the wrong medication.

In these cases, an experienced solicitor could help you put forward a compensation claim for care home negligence. Please find out how to choose the right solicitor for your case by calling our team.

Dental Medical Negligence Claims

Dental negligence or dental malpractice describes circumstances in which a dental professional caused a patient further or avoidable harm due to providing a substandard level of care.

As with all forms of medical negligence, dentist or dental assistant negligence can happen in numerous ways, such as:

• A dentist may have incorrectly performed a tooth extraction by removing the wrong tooth. As a result, you may have experienced an additional injury and had your existing condition made worse.
• The dentist may have failed to provide the correct diagnosis of gingivitis despite you exhibiting clear signs of the condition. As a result, you may have developed gum disease, causing you further harm.

If you have experienced a similar situation, call our team to learn how our medical negligence solicitors for Sutton-in-Ashfield could help.

Hospital Negligence Claims

There are a variety of reasons for which medical negligence cases may be made against both a private or NHS hospital, such as:

• A doctor may have unreasonably discharged you from the hospital despite you exhibiting clear signs of still requiring medical care. As a result, you may have experienced a worsening of your pre-existing condition.
• A nurse may have failed to turn you regularly to prevent you from developing pressure sores while you could not move from bed. As a result, you may have experienced further harm in the form of an avoidable pressure sore.

If you have experienced negligence or malpractice in a hospital, one of our solicitors could help. For more information on the process of making a hospital negligence claim, please get in touch on the number above.

Medical Negligence Claims Calculator

There are several factors that may be considered when calculating the value of your claim. For instance, medical evidence may help assess the severity of your condition and how badly your quality of life was affected.

In addition, a document called the Judicial College Guidelines may be used to help value your claim.

As you can see, the amount of compensation you receive will vary depending on factors specific to your case. For that reason, it’s difficult to provide a final settlement figure that you may receive.

However, you could use our medical negligence compensation calculator to get an estimate of how much your claim may be worth. Please only use this figure as a guide, as your actual settlement will vary.

Alternatively, if you choose our medical negligence solicitors for Sutton-in-Ashfield, they could accurately calculate your claim as part of the services they offer.

What Will My Compensation Claim Comprise?

Each claim may include general and special damages. General damages allow you to seek compensation for any physical and psychological injuries you sustained in an incident of medical negligence.

Special damages allow you to seek reimbursement for any past and future financial losses incurred as a direct result of your injuries.

For instance, you may have been unable to temporarily work while recovering from your injuries. In these instances, you could claim back any lost income under special damages.

Alternatively, you may have needed to seek additional care for someone dependant on you during your recovery. If so, you could claim back the additional care costs.

However, you will need to provide evidence to support your claim for monetary losses, such as receipts, payslips or invoices.

Successful Medical Negligence Claims Against NHS Trusts In The Sutton-in-Ashfield Area

We have included the table below to illustrate how many people have put forward clinical negligence claims against NHS Foundation Trusts in the Sutton-in-Ashfield area during 2020/2021. The table also highlights how much was paid in damages, NHS and claimant costs.

We have used data from NHS Resolution’s Trust and Authority Claims Data 2020/2021.

Please note that the table does not cover all instances of medical negligence in the area. Facilities such as GP and dental surgeries, private healthcare, and care homes are not included.

No Win No Fee Claims For Medical Malpractice Or Negligence

In order to make a claim, you have several options you may wish to consider. Firstly, you could claim without legal representation, which bears no initial cost. However, during the course of your claim, other costs could incur, such as medical fees.

Alternatively, you could choose a solicitor or firm that offers No Win No Fee services, such as a Conditional Fee Agreement (CFA).

CFA’s are a way for you to begin a clinical negligence claim without needing to pay an immediate upfront cost for the solicitor to begin working on your claim. Most importantly, if your claim is unsuccessful, you won’t be asked to pay solicitor fees.

If you are awarded a settlement, you will need to pay your solicitor a success fee for their work on your claim. The fee is taken as a percentage of the final award. However, the percentage is legally capped.

Talk To Us Today About Working With Our Medical Negligence Solicitors For Sutton-in-Ashfield

Are you ready to begin your claim for damages and get the compensation you deserve? If so, our team are here to help.

An advisor could assess your claim to determine whether one of our medical negligence solicitors for Sutton-in-Ashfield could represent your case.

However, if you need more information on the claims process, an advisor can provide further clarification on anything of which you’re unsure.

Our team of expert advisors are available 24/7 to discuss your medical negligence claim. You can get in touch on the following:

• Phone us: 0800 073 8804
• Live chat: Speak with an advisor using the live chat function below.
• Contact form: Fill out the online form with your query, and an advisor will get back to you.

Further Medical Negligence Guides And Helpful Resources

In this section, we have provided further guides on different medical negligence claims and additional external resources on your patient rights.

Please see our guide to find out how to claim compensation following an incident of medical negligence resulting in death.

For more information on the steps you may wish to take to pursue a breast cancer negligence claim, see our guide.

Visit our guide for more general information on the different types of medical negligence claims we could handle.

If you require any further information on the nature of NHS negligence claims made during 2020/2021, see NHS Resolution’s Annual Report Statistics.

For more information on the fundamental standards of care, visit the Care Quality Commission.

Further Helpful Guides

• Southend-on-Sea Medical Negligence Solicitors
• Southport Medical Negligence Solicitors 
• St Albans Medical Negligence Solicitors
• Medical Negligence Solicitors in Stockport
• Stockton-On-Tees Medical Negligence Solicitors
• Stoke On Trent Medical Negligence Solicitors
• Sunderland Medical Negligence Solicitors
• Sutton Medical Negligence Solicitors
• Swansea Medical Negligence Solicitors
• Misdiagnosis Medical Negligence Claims
• Facelift Injury Negligence Claims

Local Healthcare Services In The Sutton-in-Ashfield Area

In this section, we have included examples of healthcare services available in the Sutton-in-Ashfield area.

NHS Hospital
King’s Mill Hospital
Mansfield Road,
Sutton-in-Ashfield
NG17 4JL
Tel: 01623 622515

Private Hospital
Nottingham Road Clinic
195 Nottingham Road
Mansfield
Nottinghamshire
NG18 4AA
Tel: 01623 624137

GP Practice
Willowbrook Medical Practice
Brook Street,
Sutton in Ashfield,
Nottinghamshire,
NG17 1ES
Tel: 01623 440018

Bupa Dental Care Sutton-in-Ashfield
The Old School,
Sutton-in-Ashfield,
Nottinghamshire,
NG17 1AE
Tel: 01623 557543

Thank you for reading our guide on choosing the best medical negligence solicitors for the Sutton-in-Ashfield area. For more information, contact our team on the number at the top of the page.