Medical Negligence Claims Solicitors can help you get the compensation you need

If you’ve been affected by a case of medical negligence, it’s highly important that you secure the help of an experienced medical negligence claims solicitor to help you get the compensation you deserve.

Unfortunately, it seems that we’re going through a period of increasing medical negligence within our hospitals and other medical services. So much so that the numbers of people making medical negligence claims is rising rapidly, and daily there are new stories about people who have lives have been ruined by the negligent actions of the medical professionals that they put their trust in.

Reports issued today declare that regulator Watchdog will be assessing one in eight NHS trusts across England for medical negligence towards patients. This is because basic standards, such as hygiene and safety, are not being met in many hospitals in the country.

Earlier this week it was discussed that medical negligence claims are on the increase due to shorter working hours enforced on surgeons in hospitals. This has resulted in a sharp decline in patient care, and subsequently there have been a number of “near misses”, with patients becoming more ill or nearly dying due to a lack of communication between surgeons who are being forced to go home half-way through treating their patient.

This has lead to an increase in medical negligence claims in itself. Surgeons are now unable to become familiar with patients’ conditions, and this poses the danger of mis-diagnosis, or prescribing the wrong medicine. New surgeons are also suffering, as the less hours means their training time is dramatically shortened, meaning the possibility of less trained surgeons in the future in hospitals.

It was especially saddening to hear about two medical negligence claims over recent days, both of which were made after terrible medical negligence towards babies.

Harry Snowdon was awarded £7.1million compensation after his parent’s medical negligence claims were successful. His mother, Debra Snowdon was not monitored properly during her labour and given excessive amounts of Syntocinon; an inducing drug. This caused major complications during the birth of her son, which lead to him being starved of oxygen, causing permanent brain damage. Harry and his family will now live with the consequences of the Oxford hospital’s medical negligence for the rest of his life.

Similarly, Krishna Govekar and partner Johanne Rees made medical negligence compensation claims when their baby was starved of oxygen during birth. Medical negligence was caused by not monitoring the baby’s heart beat properly, which were very distressed. The lack of actions caused complications and their baby, named Arun, was born brain-dead with no hope of survival.

Although these are both cases of medical negligence during birth, many unfortunate people suffer negligence in other ways, during operations, being prescribed inappropriate medicine at the doctors or even going to the dentist surgery. These are just a couple of examples of how people’s lives can be affected by medical negligence; there are many more cases that happen everyday in the worryingly deteriorating standards in our hospitals.

If you have ever suffered medical negligence there are steps you can take to getting the justice you deserve. The best thing to do would be to get in contact with an experienced compensation claims company, who have the experience of managing medical negligence claims on a daily basis. They will look to put you in contact with a medical negligence claims solicitor.

Medical negligence claims are made on a No Win No Fee basis, against the insurance company of the authority, trust or board responsible for the medical negligence. A medical negligence claims solicitor will know exactly how much compensation you are entitled to and exactly how to get it for you.

Your medical negligence claim starts by contacting the experts.