Top Medical Negligence claims

A medical negligence claim for medical misdiagnosis is made when a person was given the incorrect medical diagnosis, or possibly not given any diagnosis for their ill health at all. It also includes when a diagnosis is delayed, leading to a decline in health or potential health condition. Particular conditions that are often misdiagnosed include:

• cancer
• diabetes
• meningitis
• appendicitis
• Cauda Equina Syndrome
• a stroke
• Parkinson's
• Multiple sclerosis

If you are a victim of medical misdiagnosis, this can cause you a lot of pain and suffering. It could cause terminal illness in some cases, and be life-threatening as a result of the knock-on effect of not getting the treatment needed. 

Surgical negligence is when a mistake has occurred during an operation or surgery which could have been avoided. These results can worsen your current condition or even cause additional injuries to those you already suffered. Typical types of surgical negligence include:

• carrying out the wrong type of operation
• operating on the wrong part of the body
• not telling a patient about the risks of a surgical procedure
• foreign objects left inside a person's body
• poor hygiene when operating causing an infection 
• failing to carefully check that a patient is suitable to operate on
• not using the correct amount of anaesthetic
• cosmetic surgery which causes scarring and disfigurement
• nerve damage resulting from operation mistakes
• perforated organs

Sometimes surgical negligence can be so terrible that mistakes happen which should never occur. These are called “Never events”. 

Unfortunately, a common type of medical negligence claim is for pregnancy and birth injuries. These can affect both a mother and baby. Pregnancy and birth injuries can be as simple as the failure to correctly monitor a mother or baby. 

However, the effect of this type of medical negligence can be devastating, causing life-changing results. Examples of medical negligence causing pregnancy and birth injuries include:

• negligence by midwives
• obstetrics negligence
• negligence when carrying out IVF
• misdiagnosing miscarriage
• negligence regarding stillbirths
• neonatal negligence
• pregnancy complications which are poorly managed
• sterilisation which went wrong
• retained placenta 
• not diagnosing and treating infections in the mother
• injuring the baby or mother during or after birth
• retained products of conception (RPOC)
• maternal diabetes
• gestational diabetes
• preeclampsia
• uterine rupture and placental abruption
• forceps delivery
• confidential hip dysplasia
• second or third-degree tears in labour

When you suffer a delay in medical care, this can lead to your condition worsening. Sometimes delayed care, treatment or surgery can cause irreparable damage. A delay in operating, for example, could result in a patient enduring more discomfort and inconvenience. Treatment delays can mean irrevocable damage and even death, for example when cancer referrals are delayed. 

One of the top medical negligence claims is for infection or contamination due to medical negligence. If the infection is bacterial, it can even cause death and is often the result of poor hygiene in the medical establishment. Infections can also occur due to:

• not properly disposing of soiled dressings
• failure to sterilise medical equipment

Cross-infection is another type of medical negligence infection claim, where infections transfer between patients. Infections can unfortunately be deadly; for example, sepsis kills five people every hour in the UK. 

Hospital malpractice or negligence covers the many types of care or medical mistakes you suffer from in a hospital. As a person can receive so many different treatments when in hospital, hospital malpractice can occur in many different ways. For example:

• A and E negligence, such as a failure to sufficiently examine a patient
• medical misdiagnosis
• wrongful death
• pressure sore claims
• infections as a result of being in hospital
• prescription errors

Make your medical negligence claim with us at National Accident Helpline as we fully understand that being a victim of medical negligence can have a terrible and overriding massive effect on your life. So, we want to ensure you get the compensation you truly deserve. 

Making a medical negligence claim with National Accident Helpline means you can claim on a no-win no no-fee basis. A no-win-no-fee medical negligence compensation claim takes away all the risk from you. So if it turns out that your suffering and injury were not due to medical negligence, you lose nothing.

Let National Accident Helpline help you today. Give us a call at or request that we call you back here. You can even begin your claim online here.

To start a medical negligence compensation claim with us at National Accident Helpline is quick and simple. Just dial us on or if it is easier, you can start the process online here.  If you want to know firstly how much compensation National Accident Helpline can win you, we work this out for you using our compensation calculator here.

The first step to begin your medical negligence compensation claim is to chat with one of our kind, friendly and sympathetic telephone advisers. They will listen very carefully to how you suffered. Next, they pass you on to our medical negligence solicitors to complete your claim. You can rest assured that we only work with the best medical negligence solicitors to make sure we get you the maximum compensation you are due as quickly as possible. You need compensation to reimburse you and help you with changes you have had to make to your daily life.

If you suffered medical negligence, you are owed compensation. So, call National Accident Helpline today on or request a call back here. If you prefer, begin your claim online and start making your compensation claim today.

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