| While the medical profession generally provides | | | | care also vary widely. There could be a failed or |
| excellent health care to patients, there are | | | | delayed diagnosis, lack of information provided about |
| unfortunately cases that give rise to clinical negligence | | | | the risks of a medical procedure, a mistake made in a |
| compensation claims. Here, claims management | | | | surgical procedure or a system error occurring in a |
| company Claim-Easy ( looks at just what constitutes | | | | hospital's processes. If any of these situations (and |
| ‘clinical negligence', which cases can lead to | | | | more) can be proved to be the fault of the medical |
| successful compensation claims and the best way to | | | | professional or body treating the patient and that this |
| go about claiming for this type of incident. | | | | led to a serious illness or injury (or a death) then it |
| | | | | could be possible to claim compensation for clinical |
| The General Medical Council exists to govern the | | | | negligence. |
| medical profession; to ensure they carry out their | | | | |
| duty of care and, in instances where medical | | | | Clinical negligence claims are more complicated than |
| treatment of patients has failed in some way, inform | | | | most other personal injury claims or accident claims |
| the patient that this is the case. Clinical negligence | | | | because it can be harder to prove that in all |
| (formerly known as ‘medical negligence') is the | | | | probability the medical professional or body was at |
| term used to refer to cases where there was a | | | | fault for an illness or injury than, for instance, the |
| breach in the duty of care in the medical treatment | | | | driver in a road traffic accident. Independent medical |
| of a patient and where this breach has led to an | | | | experts in the field in which the illness or injury falls |
| injury, illness or death of a patient as a direct result. | | | | will have to be consulted to help prove where the |
| In cases where this can be proved, a clinical | | | | fault lies. |
| negligence compensation claim can be made to seek | | | | |
| financial compensation for the patient or for the | | | | Given this, it's vital that patients wanting to pursue a |
| relatives of a deceased patient. Clinical negligence | | | | clinical negligence compensation claim receive |
| compensation can even apply to dental treatment or | | | | adequate expert advice from a claims management |
| to treatment administered by nurses, midwives and | | | | company that is particularly experienced in this type |
| psychiatrists. | | | | of claim. Claim-Easy have the experience and |
| | | | | expertise to confidently handle what can be difficult |
| Medical claims can arise out of situations as varied as | | | | compensation claims and work hard on the claimant's |
| the areas of medicine themselves: accident and | | | | behalf to get what is rightfully theirs. All clinical |
| emergency, cancer care, operative care, keyhole | | | | negligence claims managed by Claim-Easy are done so |
| surgery, gynaecology, plastic surgery and many more | | | | on a no win no fee basis and successful claimants |
| areas of medical treatment. The situations that can | | | | receive 100% compensation. |
| lead to a breach of a medical professional's duty of | | | | |