In the UK we are extremely lucky to have the health care that we are have been brought up with. From such a young age we have been aware that if we become ill or injured we visit our doctors and they will hopefully make us better. If we become really ill we can be referred to a hospital where doctors and nurses will do everything they can to make us better.
After recovering from an illness, doctors like to keep an eye on us, they often do this by referring us to a consultant who we pay regular visits to. They will check that we are still in good health, and are coping well with the after affects of the disease.
Although non of us like the idea of being in hospital, we like to think that if we ever need to stay in that we will be taken care of. We’ve all probably visited someone in hospital at some point in our lives, and hopefully we will have witnessed the hard work that the staff were doing to ensure everyone was safe.
Unfortunately there are some rare cases in the UK where medical negligence is seen as the reason that some patients were forced to endure further suffering. It may be that you had an operation that went wrong causing you more pain and health problems than necessary. Or a lot of cases that have been in the news lately have been about patients whose illness has been misdiagnosed.
The misdiagnosis of some diseases such as cancer can be life threatening. Cancer is a deadly disease and if left untreated can spread very quickly. Some patients who suffer from cancer are told they only have a certain amount of time left to live.
There was recently an article in the Daily Mail, it was a diary written by a junior doctor. She explained her roles as a doctor and that when she was a treating patient she felt that she didn’t know as much as she needed to help the patient as much as she could. One of the causes of medical negligence is that there may be delays in admitting patients, as junior doctors may take longer to diagnose an illness.
If you feel you have been a victim of medical negligence and have suffered injury due to this you may be able to make an injury compensation claim.
