What is a Medical Negligence?
Medical Negligence is when something goes wrong whilst you are receiving medical treatment. It describes situations where a patient has been harmed, not because of a recognised risk or unavoidable complications of their treatment, but because a doctor or healthcare professional has not given the appropriate standard of care.
It is important to remember that if your treatment has not worked or there have been complications, it does not necessarily mean there has been a mistake, or that someone is to blame. As with all medical treatment, there are recognisable and unavoidable risks.
As a patient, the law expects you to receive a reasonable standard of care from your healthcare professional.
Clinical or medical negligence includes medical accidents such as:
- Prescribing you the wrong medication
- Making the wrong diagnosis or delaying the correct diagnosis
- Making a mistake during an operation or procedure
Clinical negligence can also include situations where something has not been done that should have been done, such as:
- Not getting your consent (agreement) to treatment
- Not giving you the treatment that you needed
- Not warning you about the risks of a particular type of treatment
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