Do you need compensation for the financial loss due to medical malpractice? You can bring a claim for that. A Medical Negligence Claim refers to compensation for negligent treatment experienced by a patient from a medical professional.
What are the different kinds of Medical Negligence Claim in the UK? Here are some of the medical negligence you can claim:
1. Birth Injury. Compensation can be claimed due to the injury suffered by the mother or the baby. Injury to the baby includes Erb’s palsy or strep B infection. Personal injury to the mother can be massive post partum haemorrhage, caesarian section infection, and traumatic injury from assisted delivery or death during childbirth.
2. Brain Injury. Some examples of brain injuries include: head injuries from a fall in a hospital, problems with intensive care treatment, anaesthetic complications, misdiagnosis of intracerebral bleeding, inadequate resuscitation at cardiac arrest and complications of neurosurgical treatment.
3. Plastic or Cosmetic surgery. Medical Negligence Claim in UK provides compensation for injuries caused by medical errors, like failed surgery and sub-standard treatment. Common surgical procedures include: face lifts, eyelid surgery, or nose re-shaping; tummy tucks and liposuction; injury to the cartilage of the ears in ear pinning and treatment by laser or injection.
4. Incorrect Medication. Examples of prescription errors include pharmacists error by supplying an incorrect dosage of medication and radiation therapy overdose.
5. Spinal Cord injury. Medical Negligence Claim for this injury includes physiotherapy, costs of care and personal mobility. Negligence can happen due to inadequate handling techniques of patients with fractures of the spine and injury to the vascular supply to the spinal cord.
6. Dental Negligence. Claims can be made for loss of sensation, infection, extraction of teeth or insertion of implants.
7. Eye surgery. Inappropriate cataract surgery, optic nerve damage, inappropriate squint surgery, defective laser eye treatment and blindness due to the failure to treat diabetes correctly.
8. Joint Replacements. Joint replacement surgery may occur due to prosthetic failure, injury to the adjacent structures and infection of the prosthesis and injury.
9. Gall Bladder Injury. Claims can be made as a result of damage to the gall bladder and bile duct during gall bladder operation, like removal of gallstones.
10. Nursing Error. Poor nursing care can cause injury due to negligence, like failure to monitor the patient properly, failure to follow safety procedures and failure to administer the appropriate medication.
