Monday December 12, 2011 at 7:26am
When a person engaged in the provision of healthcare services such as a doctor, dentist or nurse accidentally injures a patient while providing medical treatment, the patient may be entitled to claim compensation.
In order to prove that medical treatment went wrong, it’s necessary to show that the medical service provided was below the standards required by the relevant medical profession.
For example, if you had a wrong tooth extracted by your dentist, and in the proces
Monday September 19, 2011 at 6:12am
Although medical mistakes such as delayed treatment or failure to provide the right treatment are common, doctors negligence claims are notoriously difficult to win. Proving a doctor’s negligence The burden of proving negligence is on you the person making a claim. The standard of proof is on a "balance of probabilities.” You must prove that it was more likely than not that the doctor was negligent. In order to succeed in a negligence claim against a doctor, you need to prove th
Thursday September 15, 2011 at 6:43am
Every now and then we all go to a doctor when not feeling well. We expect to get proper health care. That is what we all expect when we become ill and seek medical attention, both from our General Practitioner (GP) and hospital. Sadly, once in a while mistakes are made such as a doctor providing insufficient amounts of medication or giving improper instructions on how to administer medicine. All these errors can easily have detrimental effect to an individual’s health. A claim can be made
Wednesday September 14, 2011 at 6:19am
Anna, 56, successfully claimed compensation against the hospital after a doctor failed to diagnose her lung cancer. She experienced very extreme pain for a long time because of the doctor’s failure to diagnose her cancer. Anna was in pain for over three years, when her cancer was subsequently diagnosed. The condition had reached an advanced stage that her chances of recovery were compromised. The doctor had failed to properly interpret the results of chest X-rays and a CT scan which were p
Saturday June 11, 2011 at 3:28pm
A coroner told an inquest that it was undeniable a patient‘s death was wholly preventable. Mr. Thompson, 41, from Gorton, a voluntary inpatient at the Adale House Unit of Manchester Royal Infirmary was stopped from entering his ward last year. He had turned up on the 3rd April last year at 7.45pm with a bottle of vodka and refused to hand it over. He fell asleep in the corridor at 8.10pm after hospital staff let him “sleep off” the effects of alcohol. Not long before he fell as
Thursday May 12, 2011 at 5:39pm
Doctors at Stockpot NHS Trust are again under fire after the hospital treated a school boy of 11 next to a dead body. Liam Clark’s mother Deborah Bradshaw, 32, was waiting for doctors to treat her son Liam for a gashed head not realising a corpse was lying under a green sheet on the next bed. Both Liam and his mother only became aware when a doctor walked into the room and noticed the body and said to his colleague: “You do realise what that is, don’t you?” Both looked an
Sunday May 23, 2010 at 10:41am
You have a right to make a complaint about any aspect of medical treatment you receive from a hospital, doctor, nurse, physiotherapist, general practitioner, dentist, pharmacist or anyone else employed by an NHS Trust. A complaint should be made within 6 months of the date of the incident, or within 6 months of finding out that you have a problem relating to treatment you received from the hospital or doctor as long as it is within 12 months of the incident. It is advisable to make you