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Taylor Rose has an experienced specialist Medical Negligence team. The team is ranked for clinical negligence by both Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners, and with lawyers accredited by the Law Society's Clinical Negligence Accreditation Scheme and/or AvMA.
We act in claims ranging from more moderate but significant injuries through to complex, high-value cases involving permanent disability, brain and spinal injuries, amputations, birth injuries and death.
We act against NHS Trusts, GPs and other NHS healthcare providers as well as private hospitals, consultants, clinics and other healthcare professionals. Many claims can be dealt with under a no win, no fee agreement.
A poor medical outcome does not necessarily mean there has been negligence. The important questions are what should have happened, what went wrong and whether that failure actually caused or materially worsened the injury or condition.
Our lawyers can help by:
Assessing whether there may be a viable claim – discussing what happened, the harm caused and whether the circumstances justify further investigation.
Obtaining and reviewing medical records – establishing the chronology of your treatment and identifying possible failures in diagnosis, treatment, monitoring or follow-up.
Identifying the key medical and legal issues – working out which aspects of your treatment require investigation and which healthcare professionals or organisations may potentially be responsible.
Instructing independent medical experts – obtaining specialist evidence on whether your care fell below an acceptable standard and whether this caused or contributed to the harm suffered.
Investigating causation – establishing what would probably have happened with appropriate treatment and how much of your eventual injury was avoidable.
Building the evidence – obtaining medical evidence, witness statements and other documentation needed to establish liability and the consequences of the negligence.
Valuing your claim – assessing compensation for the injury itself together with financial losses and future needs such as care, treatment, rehabilitation, accommodation, equipment and loss of earnings.
Putting the claim to the healthcare provider – preparing the allegations and dealing with NHS Resolution, private healthcare providers and insurers.
Seeking admissions and interim payments – where responsibility is admitted but the final value of a serious claim cannot yet be determined, seeking early payments where appropriate can help meet immediate needs.
Negotiating compensation – using the medical and financial evidence to seek a settlement which properly reflects the impact of the injury and future requirements.
Taking court proceedings where necessary – issuing and managing proceedings where responsibility or the appropriate level of compensation cannot be agreed.
For serious injuries, obtaining compensation is only part of the work. Rehabilitation, care, accommodation and financial support may need to be considered while the claim is ongoing rather than waiting until a final settlement.
Medical negligence can arise at almost any stage of treatment. Our experience includes:
Misdiagnosis and delayed diagnosis – including cancer, stroke, sepsis and other serious conditions where earlier diagnosis could have changed the outcome.
Delayed treatment – where avoidable delays in referral, investigation, surgery or other treatment cause a condition to deteriorate.
Surgical negligence – including avoidable surgical injury, nerve or organ damage, infection and failures in post-operative care.
Birth and maternity injuries – claims involving injuries to mothers and babies during pregnancy, labour, delivery or neonatal care.
Brain and neurological injuries – including claims involving stroke, brain damage and permanent neurological injury.
Spinal injuries – including failures to diagnose and treat conditions where delay or inappropriate treatment causes permanent damage.
Orthopaedic and amputation claims – including negligent surgery, missed fractures, infection, delayed treatment and avoidable loss of a limb.
GP negligence – including failures to diagnose, refer, investigate symptoms or act on test results.
A&E and hospital negligence – including inappropriate discharge, failure to investigate symptoms, monitoring failures and delays in emergency treatment.
Medication errors – including incorrect medication or dosage and failures to monitor medication appropriately.
Fatal medical negligence – investigating treatment which may have caused or contributed to a death and pursuing claims for the estate and eligible dependants.
If your particular circumstances are not listed, that does not mean you do not have a claim. Medical negligence cases are highly fact-specific, and we can advise whether what happened warrants further investigation.
Taylor Rose has a substantial national office network, including large offices in Central London, Peterborough and Warrington and other offices around London, the South East and South West. This enables us offer convenient locations for meetings where needed.
If you believe medical treatment has caused you or a family member avoidable harm, contact our specialist Medical Negligence team.
You do not need to establish the medical or legal case yourself before getting in touch. Tell us what happened, what you believe may have gone wrong and how you have been affected. We can assess the circumstances and advise on the appropriate next steps.
Recent Taylor Rose cases include:
securing £300,000 following negligent knee surgery, where infection accelerated severe osteoarthritis and resulted in an earlier knee replacement;
obtaining a six-figure settlement following negligent knee treatment which ultimately resulted in an above-knee amputation;
securing £555,000 for a child who suffered Erb's Palsy and a fractured clavicle following failures during labour and delivery;
acting in a delayed-treatment claim -involving a stroke and permanent neurological and cognitive injury, including obtaining interim payments before final settlement;
obtaining compensation following delayed diagnosis and treatment of testicular torsion resulting in loss of fertility; and
obtaining an admission and settlement for the family of a patient who developed severe pressure sores following negligent inpatient nursing care.
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It depends on the complexity of the case.
A claim where legal liability is admitted and the injury is relatively settled may resolve more quickly. Serious claims involving several medical experts, disputed causation or uncertain long-term needs can take several years.
Where liability has been admitted, interim compensation payments may sometimes be available before the final claim is resolved.
The majority of claims are resolved through negotiation.
Proceedings may need to be issued where responsibility is disputed, the amount of compensation cannot be agreed or a limitation deadline needs to be protected. Even where proceedings are started, the case can still settle before trial.
An apology, complaint response, investigation or admission that something went wrong can be important evidence, but it does not automatically establish a compensation claim. Formal admission of liability is different from admitting a mistake.
It will still normally be necessary to consider whether the mistake amounted to a breach of the legal duty of care and what additional injury it caused.
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