Last updated 6th December 2024. You might be looking for medical negligence solicitors in Swindon because a medical professional has caused you harm that you know was avoidable.
When you visit your GP or attend a hospital appointment, you expect that the practitioner treating you will always aim to provide a diagnosis and offer treatment that will help your condition. However, sometimes albeit not very often, the doctor or nurse treating you may make an error. In this guide, we will look at when those errors could lead to a medical negligence claim and how compensation for that claim will be awarded. This will include an explanation of medical negligence and why such a compensation claim may be a good fit for you.
As we go through the guide, we have created a short list of different claim that our medical negli9gence solicitors for Swindon are experts in. As well as a look at why solicitor in your area may not always be the perfect fit. Our team offers a free initial consultation, and there is never any obligation when you speak to our advisors.
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There’s no reason to not make your first call to us, so contact us today:
- Call us on 0800 073 8804.
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Swindon Medical Negligence Solicitors
Our medical negligence solicitors for Swindon can help you claim for compensation, ensuring you have expertise at your side and reducing your workload.
To make a medical negligence claim, you must show that:
- A medical professional owed you a duty of care.
- This duty of care was breached.
- You were injured because of this breach.
When a medical professional such as a doctor agrees to treat you and you become their patient, they instantly owe you a duty of care. As part of this duty, they must provide you with the correct standard of care when diagnosing you, treating you, and providing you with medication. It is only when this duty is breached and subsequently causes harm that a medical negligence claim is valid.
You will therefore need to show that the medical professional did not provide you with the correct standard of care and this led to you suffering harm that was avoidable.
If you have any concerns, contact our advisors via the details above. They can go over your particular circumstances in detail and, if you wish to proceed, connect you to our medical negligence lawyers for Swindon without delay.
How To Find The Best Solicitors for Clinical Negligence Claims
The first step people should be to find the right medical negligence solicitors for Swindon and for you. When taking any type of legal action, and perhaps more so when the case involves what could be sensitive situations and medical information, you need to work with a solicitor you can trust. That personal relationship can be very important to feel like your case is getting the care and attention it deserves.
Before you get to using medical negligence solicitors in Swindon, or elsewhere across the country, you may come across the NHS complaints procedure. You may be given their details by a GP surgery, dental practice, or hospital. You do not have to use the NHS in-house complaints procedures or the NHS Litigation Authority, but taking a look at their sites or literature can help to explain other ways in which you can proceed. In the subsections below we will look at two of the most important parts of finding a solicitor to work on your case, reading reviews and whether it matters where your solicitor is based.
What Clinical Negligence Compensation Claims Do We Handle?
The medical compensation lawyers who work with Legal Expert can help claimants to make a plethora of different private or NHS medical negligence claims. Claims can be brought against individual health care practitioners (such as a GP, dentist, or doctor), as well as against a practice, surgery, hospital, or healthcare trust. We will always look at where liability falls and bring the claim there.
In the sections below we take a look at some of the different types of claims medical negligence solicitors in Wiltshire and across the country can handle.
Hospital Medical Negligence Claims
Hospital negligence claims deal with issues of negligent treatment people have experienced whilst in a hospital. They can be brought against individual practitioners and members of staff at the hospital, such as a surgeon, specialist, or nurse. They can also be brought against the hospital itself as a body, or against the healthcare trust or clinical commissioning group who are legally responsible for the hospital’s operations. Hospital negligence claims may be brought against both NHS hospitals and those in the private sector, including smaller clinical providing surgical procedures.
GP Medical Negligence Compensation
GP medical negligence compensation claims can help people who have suffered injury or illness are a result of the actions of their GP, or GP surgery, to claim the compensation that they are entitled to. GP claims may include incidents where the GP has not correctly diagnosed the patient’s condition, has not referred them for treatment or specialist consultation in time., or has recommended the wrong course of medication or treatment to a patient. All of these actions can be considered negligent treatment and could lead to a patient’s illness becoming much worse.
Cancer Medical Solicitors Swindon
Claims for medical negligence involving cancer can include very serious consequences for the claimant. Some of the negligent actions leading to this type of claim could include the initial GP, or a follow-up hospital appointment failing to correctly find or diagnose cancer, the failure to diagnose it early enough, or the failure to provide the correct course of treatment for the patient. As with other medical negligence cases, these can be very delicate cases requiring a high level of trust between the claimant and solicitor.
Nursing Home Medical Negligence Claims
Those receiving care in or living in a nursing home or care home can often be some of the most vulnerable in society. As such they and their relatives should expect the highest degree of care to be provided. If you or a loved one have experienced some form of negligent treatment by either an NHS or private provider, our medical negligence solicitors for Swindon can help you to get the compensation that you are entitled to.
Birth Injuries Medical Negligence
Claims for negligence leading to birth injuries can be brought against hospitals and practitioners in both the NHS and the private sector. They can include a plethora of conditions, illness, and injuries suffered by the baby and mother. Examples of conditions under which claims can be made include treatment causing conditions such as cerebral palsy and in very serious cases, the stillbirth of the child. The injuries may present immediately at birth or take months or even years to present symptoms. A claim can be made later on if the symptoms were not present or a diagnosis was not made earlier.
Medical Negligence Compensation Calculator
If your medical negligence claim is successful, you will be awarded two types of damages;
- General damages for the physical and psychological pain of the avoidable harm.
- Special damages for financial losses caused by this harm.
General damages compensate a person for the injury or illness suffered, as well as for whether or not the injury caused them not to be able to carry out their daily life, such as an injury which prevents a person from walking around whilst recovering.
Special damages are awarded for any financial hardship the claimant has suffered. This could include any loss of earnings they have suffered if they have had to take time off as unpaid holiday. It can also include the costs of any medical treatment or medication and the cost of travel to solicitors and medical appointments.
You can use our compensation calculator to find out how much compensation you could be awarded should your medical negligence claim successful.
You can see examples of these award bands in our medical negligence guide.
No Win No Fee Solicitors Swindon
Conditional Fee Agreements (CFA) are a type of No Win No Fee arrangement. They help people who may not otherwise be able to afford to take legal action. The CFA will set out what work the solicitor will do for the claimant, as well as how they will be paid. The CFA contract should say that the claimant will only have to pay for the solicitors’ services if they win their case. There will be no upfront requests for payment and no ongoing or additional charges. These types of contracts have helped millions of people across the country to seek the compensation that they are entitled to claim without having to take on any kind of financial risk or burden. They mean that if you do not win your case, you won’t be left with a large bill for their services.
Make Your Medical Negligence Claim With Legal Expert
You can begin the process of claiming the compensation you deserve by talking to the team at Legal Expert. Our team is ready to take your call seven days a week. We can provide advice and expertise to help get your claim started.
- Call us on 0800 073 8804.
- Leave a query about your claim online.
- Use our Live Chat feature below.
Further Medical Negligence Guides:
- Tamworth Medical Negligence Solicitors
- Taunton Medical Negligence Solicitors
- Torquay Medical Negligence Solicitors
- Tunbridge Wells Medical Negligence
- Wakefield Medical Negligence Solicitors
- Wallsend Medical Negligence Solicitors
- Walsall Medical Negligence Solicitors
- Waltham Forest Medical Negligence Solicitors
- What Is the Time Limit for Suing the NHS?
- Medical Negligence Resulting In Death Claims Guide
Thank you for reading our guide on medical negligence solicitors for Swindon and the surrounding area.
