Hospital negligence claims
Expert legal support when hospital care falls short of the standard you deserve.
Patients at all stages of life and in varying states of health rely on hospitals to provide safe, timely and effective medical care. Patients may be referred by their GP directly to a specialist department or go through the process of triage, examinations and investigations, diagnosis, treatment, and advice after entering the hospital at A&E.
Throughout the patient’s hospital pathway, their doctors, nurses, midwives, or other healthcare professionals and the healthcare system as a whole must provide an acceptable standard of care. If substandard care at any stage causes serious injury to the patient, they may be entitled to make a claim for compensation.
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Hospital negligence claims
Spinal cord injury
Neonatal brain injury claims
Cancer negligence
Cauda equina syndrome
Cerebral palsy
Anaesthetic negligence
Accident & emergency
Birth injury
Starting your hospital negligence claim
For more than 30 years, Boyes Turner’s medical negligence solicitors have guided severely injured patients through the claims process to secure the compensation and specialist support that they need to manage their disability and rebuild their lives.
You can contact us for free, confidential advice from a medical negligence solicitor. We will ask you to tell us briefly about your hospital care and your injury, and advise you about your time limits and whether we can help you investigate your claim. Once our investigations confirm you have grounds for a claim, we will notify the defendant healthcare provider (usually represented by NHS Resolution) on your behalf and invite them to respond, giving them an opportunity to admit liability (responsibility for your injuries) before court proceedings are issued.
If liability is admitted, we will obtain a judgment from the court and apply for a substantial interim payment to meet your needs arising from your injury and disability. If NHS Resolution or the private healthcare provider deny liability, we will advise you about the best way to proceed your claim. This may involve issuing court proceedings or inviting NHS Resolution to enter into settlement negotiations or mediation.
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Hospital negligence claims FAQs
What are hospital negligence claims?
Hospital negligence claims can describe a wide variety of medical negligence claims arising from injuries to patients caused by negligent hospital care.
NHS trusts are responsible for the care provided to patients in a range of inpatient and outpatient hospital settings, such as maternity and neonatal departments, surgery and anaesthesia, cardiology, cancer and other specialist areas of medicine, as well as radiology (for x-rays and scans), pharmacy or acute treatment in accident and emergency. Hospitals are also responsible for system errors, such as administrative and communication failures, shortages of scanners and faulty equipment, which result in injury to patients during hospital care.
If negligence by one or more NHS hospital staff or systems has caused injury to a patient, the claim is made against the NHS organisation that employs the staff and manages the systems. The NHS’ defence organisation, NHS Resolution, will then respond by defending or admitting liability, and ultimately settling the claim.
Can I make a hospital negligence claim against a private hospital?
Whether a patient receives treatment in an NHS or private hospital, they are entitled to expect a safe and acceptable standard of care.
Hospital negligence claims can be made for serious injuries caused by medical negligence in private hospitals, but care must be taken to ensure that the claim is made against the correct defendants. Unlike NHS hospital negligence claims, if a patient has been injured by negligent medical care in a private hospital, the consultant doctors or surgeons who were negligent will usually be self-employed, which means that the private hospital will not be responsible for claims arising from their mistakes. Each negligent doctor must be named as a defendant to the claim but will be represented and insured by their own defence organisation, which will pay any compensation that is ordered by the court or agreed in an out-of-court settlement.
The private hospital may also be responsible for any harm that was caused by their employees, facilities or equipment.
What types of hospital mistakes can lead to medical negligence claims?
Good hospital care relies on many factors, including decisions by individual clinicians, communication and effective working relationships between healthcare teams, adequate resources and effective systems to protect patient safety. When mistakes by individuals, teams or involving the hospital’s systems and equipment cause serious harm to the patient, they may be entitled to claim compensation for their injury.
Hospital negligence claims often involve injury caused by one or more of the following mistakes:
- delayed diagnosis and treatment of medical emergencies;
- discharging a patient who needs admission, treatment, tests or a scan;
- failing to examine the patient, take a full medical history or note the patient’s symptoms;
- failing to carry out or misinterpreting investigations, blood tests, scans;
- observation and monitoring errors;
- delayed escalation or failing to seek senior or specialist review;
- communication, appointment booking and follow-up errors;
- surgical, anaesthetic and post-operative errors;
- maternity (antenatal, perinatal and post-natal) or neonatal care errors;
- delaying or failing to recognise and treat infection;
- medication or prescribing errors.
What injuries can lead to hospital negligence claims?
As specialist medical negligence solicitors, we have decades of experience in helping clients claim compensation for injuries caused by hospital negligence. We have secured life-changing compensation settlements for clients and their bereaved families after negligent hospital care resulted in catastrophic injury and severe disability, including:
- cerebral palsy, birth injury and maternal injury or death in childbirth;
- neonatal brain injury;
- brain injury from meningitis , sepsis and HSV infection, haemorrhage or stroke;
- disability from cauda equina syndrome (CES) and spinal cord injury (SCI);
- physical and psychological injury from delayed cancer treatment;
- amputation;
- injury to major organs (heart, brain, kidney, liver, lungs, bowel);
- severe injury from anaesthetic negligence and anaphylaxis;
- fatal injury.
Making a hospital negligence claim
We understand how daunting it can feel to take the first step. Our specialist medical negligence solicitors are here to guide you through every stage.
Getting in touch
Call us or complete our online enquiry form for free, confidential advice from a specialist hospital negligence solicitor. We will listen to your concerns, explain your options, and advise whether we can investigate if mistakes or delays in hospital care caused avoidable harm.
Your hospital negligence claim
Our solicitors will review your medical records, instruct independent experts, and investigate whether you received appropriate diagnosis, treatment, monitoring and care while in hospital. Where negligence is identified, we can build a strong claim and, where appropriate, seek an interim payment to help meet immediate care and rehabilitation needs.
Securing compensation
We provide compassionate support throughout the claims process, working to secure the maximum compensation as quickly as possible to help fund ongoing treatment, rehabilitation, care, loss of earnings, adapted accommodation where needed, and other essential support.
Contact us
If you would like advice regarding a serious injury or illness affecting you or a loved one, please complete the form and one of our experts will be in touch as soon as possible.
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£1.6 million settlement for multiple amputee after negligent hospital treatment of sepsis
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£200,000 settlement for bereaved family after negligent sepsis treatment leads to young woman’s death
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£2.5 million settlement for family after mother dies from untreated pneumonia and sepsis
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£1.3 million settlement for below-knee amputee who did not receive multidisciplinary foot care
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£27 million settlement for child with neurological disability from meningitis treatment delay
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£3.6 million settlement after delayed diagnosis of neonatal meningitis causes cerebral palsy
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£5 million lump sum, lifelong annual payments of £232,750pa for care and Treloar’s SEN funding for boy with cerebral palsy
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£16 million settlement for teenager with cerebral palsy from hypoxic brain injury during delayed delivery
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£19 million settlement for girl with dyskinetic cerebral palsy caused by negligent midwifery and obstetric care during labour
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£3 million settlement for young man with physical disability from cerebral palsy caused by hypoxic injury at birth
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£4.6 million plus lifelong payments of up to £360,000pa for child with severe dystonic cerebral palsy birth injury
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£13 million settlement for young woman with neurological disability from maternity mistakes at birth
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£11.5 million settlement for boy with cerebral palsy caused by negligent midwifery care during ‘water birth’
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Our clients receive the highest standards of advice and representation and are always treated with compassion, outstanding care and understanding of the physical, emotional, psychological and financial impact that life-changing injury can have upon their lives.
- We are nationally acclaimed for our claimant medical negligence expertise and the outstanding results we achieve for our clients.
- We are ranked as leading clinical negligence experts in the Chambers Directory and Legal 500 guides to the legal profession and are accredited for our specialist expertise by the Law Society, AvMA, and the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL).
- Our integrated multidisciplinary team offers our clients a full range of specialist help with compensation, rehabilitation, SEN, deputyship, personal injury trusts and community care.
- We secure maximum compensation in claims for adults and children who have suffered catastrophic injury and severe disability, and provide practical support for their families.
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