Medical Negligence

Putting your health and life, or that of close family, into someone else's hands is a supreme act of trust.

When that person is a doctor or other healthcare professional you are usually in safe hands. But as medicine becomes more complex we are becoming less able to make informed decisions about treatment options without expert guidance. Increasingly we rely on medical advice to decide which treatment will be best for us and what risks we run when for example submitting to surgery or taking medication.

These days we also rely on the health care profession to tell us what treatments we can and cannot have because of budgetary or other restrictions.

It is not surprising then that when treatment goes wrong, or recovery is delayed or incomplete, you feel vulnerable, confused or let down.

At Jiva Solicitors LLP we understand that medical accidents are about more than just a "personal injury" and compensation. You need to know what happened, would like an apology and some reassurance that lessons will be learned from your misfortune. You may like to know how to access counselling and rehabilitation when these might aid recovery. Others wish to challenge denial of treatment. If there might be a compensation claim, you need straight forward, clear and balanced advice to help choose the best way forward.

Having a client already feeling let down by a health care professional puts a heavy onus on us to do our very best by being both supportive as well as objective.