Medical Negligence

Our people have been at the forefront of ground breaking litigation where defective medical devices have caused lifelong injuries to innocent patients. Medical negligence litigation is complicated and risky and we fully appreciate that our clients have placed their trust in medical professionals and have had this trust abused.

We have teams in place to handle all types of medical problems including an all female team to deal with gender sensitive matters. We care for victims of medical accidents with passion and compassion.

Taking legal action for medical negligence

If you’ve been injured as a result of negligent medical treatment, you may be able to take legal action for compensation. You could also take legal action for compensation if you’re the next of kin of someone:

who has died because of negligent medical treatment
who can’t take legal action themselves because they don’t have capacity.

For NHS claims you don’t have to use the NHS complaints procedure before starting legal action but you may find it helpful to use it to find out more about what has happened. You can then make a more informed decision about whether to go ahead with a clinical negligence case. If you’re thinking about taking legal action about clinical negligence, you should get specialist legal advice as soon as possible.

If you start a claim for clinical negligence, this shouldn’t normally prevent or delay your complaint being investigated through the NHS complaints procedure if you want it to be. However, in very exceptional circumstances this could happen, for example, if a judge rules that the investigation of a complaint would interfere with the legal case.

If you’re told that legal action is why your complaint isn’t being investigated within a reasonable time-scale, you should always seek specialist advice.