No Win No Fee Medical Negligence Solicitors In Leeds

Medical Negligence Solicitors in Leeds

Are you looking for quality medical negligence solicitors in Leeds? Talk to The Medical Negligence Experts today. We have a team of specialist lawyers who will help you claim maximum compensation for your injury. That’s because we offer a professional service that suits your circumstances and needs.

Talk to us if you or a close family member or friend has suffered due to negligent medical care. We are happy to offer free legal advice regarding your situation.

In addition, we’ll let you know if you may deserve to claim payment for damages. There will be no pressure or obligation for you to make a claim, either. Yet if you decide to do so, then we can help with the next steps.

Our medical negligence lawyers in Leeds successfully represent clients suffering from a wide variety of medical negligence incidents. For legal aid on as much as million-pound clinical negligence claims in Leeds when you’ve suffered injury, we can help.

Types of Medical Negligence Claims in Leeds

Leeds medical negligence is when the standard of care from a medical professional falls below what is acceptable. It can happen in any medical environment, be it the NHS or private sectors. Healthcare providers have a legal duty of care to provide an appropriate level of service. When they do not uphold this duty, and you suffer as a result, consider filing medical negligence claims in Leeds.

Examples of medical negligence claims we successfully obtain compensation payments for include:

Accident and Emergency Negligence in Leeds

A&E is one of the most vital departments of a hospital. Patients arrive with conditions varying from inconvenient to life-threatening. Plus, it’s up to the staff to identify:

• who needs immediate treatment;
• who needs further assessment;
• those who can just go home with a painkiller.

In such a busy, high-pressure environment, it is not surprising that mistakes happen. In addition, patients do not always receive the standard of care they deserve.

A&E negligence claims can include:

• misdiagnosis;
• missed fractures;
• failing to obtain and keep adequate patient notes;
• insufficient examination of a patient;
• delayed treatment, and;
• sending patients home when they need further monitoring.

Lack of Informed Consent in Leeds

Your doctor should always make you aware of the risks with your treatment. Such is the case for anyone in England and Wales, not just in Leeds, too.

Moreover, that’s always the case whether you’re having a cosmetic skin peel or a quadruple heart bypass. It is the responsibility of medical professionals to properly ensure you know the potential risks and side-effects of the treatment. In addition, they need to give participants information about any alternative types of treatment.

Without knowing this, you don’t have the information you need to assess the risk and decide to do it. This lack of informed consent can be the basis of a successful claim. That’s the case even if the practitioner was not negligent in providing the actual care or treatment.

Cerebral Palsy and Birth Injuries in Leeds

Inadequate monitoring of a baby and mother before and during birth can lead to the child suffering birth injuries. Lack of detection of conditions like preeclampsia and gestational diabetes. Additionally, delays in requesting a caesarean when a baby is in distress during birth, are two typical examples.

Surgical Negligence Solicitors in Leeds

Surgical negligence can include not obtaining informed consent. Making mistakes during the surgery like:

• removing a healthy organ or leaving a piece of equipment inside the body;
• anaesthetic mistakes causing a patient to become conscious during surgery, or;
• suffer a lack of oxygen and brain damage, and;
• post-surgical care where avoidable infections develop.

Mental Health Negligence Solicitors in Leeds

Mental health patients deserve the same duty of care as those with obvious physical illnesses. Negligence of mental health conditions can include:

• misdiagnosis or mistreatment;
• not providing adequate supervision of a patient when they are in a hospital or a care home;
• failing to protect a patient from self-harming;
• harming others when their behaviour poses a risk, and;
• not discharging a patient when they have the legal right to leave.

Dental Negligence Solicitors in Leeds

Dental negligence can include unnecessary treatments like fillings and root canal work. As well as cosmetic dentistry like tooth whitening or adding veneers. Your dentist should also check for allergies and existing medication before giving you any anaesthetic or painkillers. Moreover, they should make sure you provide informed consent.

Medical Misdiagnosis Solicitors in Leeds

Medical misdiagnosis can include:

• mistaking one condition for another;
• causing delays in medical treatment by not requesting appropriate assessment and testing, or;
• failing to diagnose an illness or condition entirely.

It is possible that a professional take all the appropriate steps. Yet, that professional is still unable to diagnose your illness or decide what specialist area where you should be referred. Medical misdiagnosis is common, too. For instance, in the US, 12 million adults face misdiagnosis annually, with up to 20% unaware of serious conditions.

However, complex medical negligence situations may occur where steps do not receive proper observance. Especially where test results are:

• misunderstood;
• cast aside, or;
• where a referral doesn’t happen.

Claiming Compensation for Medical Negligence

Your successful compensation claim begins by contacting The Medical Negligence Experts. Whether you phone us directly or fill in our online form for us to contact you, we have a team of expert advisors who will talk to you about your experience and let you know if you have grounds to make a claim. This consultation is completely free, and there’s no obligation on your part to commit to anything.

It is important to work with a medical negligence solicitor who has experience in your type of claim. Although the law is broadly similar across the different types of negligence, specialist lawyers will understand how to apply it to your claim to work it to your best advantage.

Your lawyer will prove you have a right to make an injury claim directly as a result of a negligent act or series of acts. The cause may have been due to one person, for example mixing up medication, or it could be institutional, such as not providing sufficient training to ensure staff know how to store and dispense medication correctly.

This proof will go to the other party with the request they acknowledge liability and pay appropriate compensation. They then have four months to research the evidence your solicitor has supplied, either accepting responsibility and making an offer of payment or denying liability.

During this time, your lawyer finds out more about how your injury impacts your life: psychologically and financially. They’ll seek to put a value on your injury so you know what is a fair and reasonable amount of compensation to accept.

No Win, No Fee Agreement

The Medical Negligence Experts offer a No Win, No Fee* agreement for clients to make top quality legal advice affordable for everyone.

No Win No Fee Agreements, or conditional fee agreements, work with legal insurance that can be taken out after the event. We can talk to you about your options before you decide whether or not you are going to pursue a claim, so you are confident with your decision.

How to Know if You Can Claim Compensation

There are two parts to a legitimate compensation claim for medical negligence, and they must both be present.

The first is that you suffer negligent medical care in Leeds. For instance, some healthcare professional makes a mistake. Or, there are systematic or institutional errors that engender inadequate, below-standard treatment. Certainly below what you expect to receive from any similar professional or facility.

The second aspect that makes a claim legitimate is an injury as a result of the act of negligence. As bad as it is that someone fails in their duty of care, a “near miss” isn’t enough to warrant payment of damages.

Proving the validity of a claim can be difficult. Many treatments have an element of risk, too. But that’s where the skill and experience of your lawyer prove its worth. A specialist solicitor knows the necessary information to:

• remove any ambiguity over liability, plus;
• obtaining the necessary medical records and independent reports.

Especially any that show your injury won’t occur if not for the poor care you receive.

Compensation Claim Processing Times

One of the earliest questions customers want answering is how long their claim will take to process. Unfortunately, the answer is never precise as there are so many variables which can affect it. As a guideline, the more severe your injury or the less clear your prognosis, the longer your claim will take.

Average resolution times for compensation claims in the UK range from around nine months for simple dental negligence, like removing a tooth unnecessarily, to 18 months for a misdiagnosed fracture, and three or more years for brain injuries.

Factors which will influence the time it takes to receive compensation include the nature of your injury. Is it progressive like cancer and would it have progressed at that pace anyway? Is it unclear what the lasting effects will be?

For example, a spinal injury where there is the chance of regaining some use of limbs. Still, doctors are unable to identify when or how much, or does the other party dispute liability?

Another issue which affects the duration of a claim is how much time elapses before raising the claim. There is often a significant amount of evidence to gather, too. Ergo, this becomes more difficult as time passes and the incident fades from the memories of the key parties.

The sooner you seek legal advice and start a claim, the more beneficial it will be to the outcome. Here at TMNE, we work with specialist law firms that are part of the Law Society in England and Wales.

Compensation Amounts for Medical Negligence Claims

In addition to processing times, an FAQ to medical negligence solicitors in Leeds is how much compensation you can win. Again, unfortunately, it’s not possible to be precise during the initial part of your claim. It is not until your lawyer has spent a considerable amount of time researching your incident and the impact it has had on your life that they can advise what a fair and appropriate amount of compensation is.

One component of your compensation payment is in regard to damages for pain and suffering. There are standard guidelines used as the base for calculating compensation based on the nature of your injury and what has been paid in claims made in the UK. We can give you a rough estimate at the start of your claim which we will refine as our research progresses.

Factors that influence the level of your payment include any financial impact it has had. For example, if you have had to give up work because your injury prevents you from carrying out your duties, or if you have had to take an extended period of sick leave and are only receiving statutory sick pay instead of your normal wage, you will have suffered lost income.

Expenses of travelling to and from medical appointments can be part of this. As well as additional therapy or treatment you pay for privately for, will also be factored into the amount of compensation.

Claiming Compensation on Behalf of Another Person

In addition to representing victims of medical negligence, we are also able to support those claiming on behalf of another person. This is frequently a parent acting on behalf of a child who has been harmed through medical negligence but can also be the spouse or guardian claiming for a person who is mentally incapable of doing so themselves. In this instance, you would be the claimant’s “litigation friend.”

Compensation made in third party claims is paid into a legal trust to be held until the claimant is legally able to manage the funds. Trustees may authorise it to be spent on the claimant to improve their quality of life, for example having additional therapy in addition to what NHS provides, buying or hiring mobility aids, or moving to a home which better suits their physical needs.

Can I Afford to Claim Compensation?

Yes, you can afford the quality legal representation that will give your claim every chance of success. You may already have cover on your contents or health insurance which will cover your legal costs. If not, The Medical Negligence Experts offer clients a No Win, No Fee* agreement. We will talk to you about After the Event insurance for medical negligence claims that will cover your opponent’s legal fees if your claim is not successful.

The first step is yours but after that, The Medical Negligence Experts will be by your side for the duration. Contact us today to find out more about how we can help you get the compensation you deserve.

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