Damages for medical negligence – who can sue?

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Each member of the medical team is immune from liability for negligence, medical and all of them regardless of whether it is a medical state or private, nurse or occupational therapist may be sued for damages for negligent medical.

Besides individuals can sue for hospital indemnity, both private and funded by the National Health Service or manufacturers, to some extent defective medical products, including drugs and implants.

What mistakes in clinical negligence are eligible for compensation?

Everyone, even a doctor, can make a mistake. A patient who becomes injured as a result of malpractice on the part of medical personnel has the right to apply for compensation. We can seek it in case of:

– failed plastic surgery,

– wrong diagnosis,

– there has been a clinical negligence,

– a child or a mother during childbirth were injured,

– there has been negligence on the part of doctors, nurses, for example, a wrong medicine is prescribed or a mistake is made in during an operation,

– there has been a negligence dental care.

 

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