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This guide will provide you with information about the benefits of using medical negligence solicitors for Newcastle.

Medical Negligence Solicitors For Newcastle – No Win No Fee Claims Guide

All medical professionals have a duty of care to their patients. This means they have a legal obligation to provide an adequate level of care to their patients at all times. If the correct standard of care is not provided, this is a breach of their duty and could result in a patient experiencing avoidable harm. This is defined as medical negligence.

Further down in this guide, we’ll be discussing the steps you could take if you have experienced an incident of medical negligence, including the evidence you can gather and the benefits of seeking legal advice.

Additionally, we will discuss the compensation you could be awarded if you make a successful claim.

To find out more, please get in touch with our helpful advisors. They can provide free legal advice regarding your potential claim. You can reach them by:

Calling 0113 460 1216
Filling out the ‘contact us’ form on our website
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A Guide To Claiming With Medical Negligence Solicitors For Newcastle

Medical professionals such as doctors and nurses have a duty of care to their patients. This means they must provided a minimum standard of care. When this standard of care isn’t met and results in a person sustaining unnecessary harm, a medical negligence claim could be made.

The consequences of experiencing avoidable harm due to medical negligence can include:

A condition worsening, in some cases this could lead to death.
Complications arising from incorrect treatment or unnecessary medical treatment.

In addition to the physical impact, a person could experience a psychological impact including stress and depression. Furthermore, if they require time off work while recovering, it could lead to a loss of income.

If you are eligible to seek compensation, you may benefit from hiring medical negligence solicitors for Newcastle to help you. They can offer several services that could benefit your claim. We have explored these further in the section below. Read on to learn more.

Alternatively, you can get in touch with an advisor to learn when you could be eligible to seek medical negligence compensation.

What Are The Benefits Of Using Our Panel Of Medical Negligence Solicitors For Newcastle?

You may think you need to work with medical negligence solicitors in Newcastle. However, it is not required to use solicitors in your local area in order to make a claim.

Instead, you can focus on finding a solicitor who has experience handling cases similar to your own and who offers their services on a No Win No Fee basis. In doing so, you can avoid paying upfront or ongoing costs for their services.

The solicitors on our panel can help as they meet these criteria. Additionally, they can help you:

Collect evidence to support your claim
Speak with potential witnesses for statements that could help corroborate your case
Provide you with regular updates on the case
Accurately value your claim
Give you a realistic timescale of how long your claim could take
Use their legal expertise to present and build your case

To find out whether you could be eligible to work with a solicitor from our panel, get in touch on the number above.

Examples Of Clinical Negligence

There are several ways a medical professional might fail to provide the correct standard of care causing a patient to sustain avoidable harm. Examples of medical negligence can include:

Medical misdiagnosis – A person is incorrectly diagnosed with a chest infection despite exhibiting clear signs of lung cancer. As a result, the cancer spreads and they require more invasive treatment.
Birth injury – A surgeon cuts too deeply when carrying out a caesarean section leading to the perforation of the mother’s bowel. As a result of the C-section gone wrong, the patient experiences avoidable harm.
Medication error – This can include wrong medication being administered or an incorrect prescription given resulting in a person sustaining harm that could have otherwise been avoided.

However, it’s important to remember that you would only be able to make a claim if you can prove that care that was provided went below the expected standard of care.

To find out whether you’re eligible to seek compensation and whether medical negligence solicitors for Newcastle could help, get in touch on the number above.

What Compensation Could You Receive From A Medical Negligence Claim?

After making a successful medical negligence claim, you could be awarded a settlement comprising of general damages and special damages.

General damages seek to compensate for the emotional and physical pain and suffering caused by the harm you experienced due to medical negligence. It also accounts for the overall impact on your quality of life.

Below is a table detailing compensation brackets from the Judicial College Guidelines. These correspond to different types of harm and can be used by medical negligence solicitors for Newcastle to help them when valuing the general damages portion of claims.

Note that the below figures are only estimates and are in no way guaranteed. This is due to the many different variables considered when valuing general damages.

Type of Harm	Compensation Bracket	Notes
Injury resulting from brain damage	£150,110 to £219,070	Personality change, large effect on sight, speech and other senses. Moderate to severe intellectual deficit
Injury resulting from brain damage	£90,720 to £150,110	Moderate to modest intellectual deficit, ability to work greatly reduced if not removed.
Bladder	Up to 184,200	Double incontinence resulting in total loss of natural bowel function as well as urinary function and control. There will also be other medical complications.
Bladder	£63,980 to £79,930	Control is seriously impaired with pain and incontinence.
Make Reproductive System	In excess of £153,870	Reproductive organs are completely lost.
Bowels	Up to £150,110	Dependence on colostomy and total loss of natural function.
Bowels	In the region of £79,920	Cases of faecal urgency and passive incontinence after surgery, typically occurring following a birth injury.
Lung Disease	£54,830 to £70,030	Disease causing significant and worsening lung function.
Kidney	£30,770 to £44,880	Loss of one kidney and the other is not damaged.
Spleen	£20,800 to £26,290	Loss of spleen with a continuing risk of internal infection and other disorders due to the immune system being damaged.

Special damages compensates for the financial losses incurred as a result of the harm you sustained due to medical negligence. Examples of the costs can include:

Loss of earnings
Care costs
Medical expenses

You should keep a record of any losses, such as receipts and payslips, when claiming them back.

What Evidence Could Support My Claim?

Evidence is vital when making a claim. This is because you’ll have to prove that medical negligence occurred. Examples of the evidence you could collect include:

A diary of your treatment and any symptoms you experience.
Copies of prescriptions.
Copies of your doctor’s notes.
A hospital report.
Copies of scans.

In addition to collecting evidence, you can seek legal advice. An advisor from our team can offer free advice regarding your potential claim.

Additionally, if they find your claim has a chance of succeeding, they could connect you with one of the medical negligence solicitors from our panel to represent your case. To learn more, please get in touch on the number above.

Is There A Time Limit To Claim For Medical Negligence?

As per The Limitation Act 1980 a claim needs to be made within three years of the date of the accident, or the date that you became aware of medical negligence. You’d only be able to make a claim outside of these time constraints in certain circumstances.

For example, if a person is under eighteen or if a person does not have the mental capacity to make a claim, then the time limit is paused. In these circumstances, a litigation friend could be appointed by the courts in order to make a claim on a person’s behalf.

However, if no claim is made on behalf of a child by the time they turn 18, they will have three years to make their own claim from their 18th birthday. Similarly, if a person regains their mental capacity and no claim has been previously made on their behalf, the three-year period would begin from the date of recovery.

Can I Hire No Win No Fee Medical Negligence Solicitors For Newcastle?

Providing your claim is valid and has a chance of success, one of the solicitors from our panel could represent you. All the medical negligence solicitors on the panel work on a No Win No Fee basis.

This means they can operate your claim under a Conditional Fee Agreement (CFA). This is a type of No Win No Fee agreement that means you can access their services without paying upfront or ongoing fees. Also, if the claim does not succeed, you will generally not be required to pay for the work they have completed on your case.

However, under a CFA, your solicitor will deduct a percentage from your compensation if your medical negligence claim is successful. This is called a success fee and is capped by the Conditional Fee Agreements Order 2013.

Contact Us For Free 24/7 To See If You Can Claim For Medical Negligence

You can contact us anytime in order to get a free consultation from a member of our team in relation to your claim. Once they’ve confirmed that your claim is valid, then they could connect you with medical negligence solicitors for Newcastle.

You can contact them by:

Calling 0113 460 1216
Filling out the ‘contact us’ form on our website
Chatting with one of our advisors by using the live chat feature on our website.

Learn More About The Medical Negligence Claims Process

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Additionally, you can follow the external links below to learn more.

If you have any other questions about the benefits of using medical negligence solicitors for Newcastle, please get in touch on the number above.

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