Medical Negligence

The care that you receive from a hospital, doctor, nurse or other health care agency has a large impact on your well being. Australia generally has a very high standard of health care and when you see a medical professional you are entitled to receive the best care possible. Unfortunately this is not always the case and when and injury is worsened because of poor medical treatment a medical negligence claim may arise.

Medical negligence is also known as medical malpractice or clinical negligence and seeks to provide compensation from health care providers to patients who have been personally injured by a health care professional.

By law health care providers have to provide patients with a "duty of care" which means there are strict guidelines to provide a 'reasonable standard of care'.

Proving medical negligence

If you believe you have a claim of medical negligence, you must prove:

That the treatments you received showed a less than reasonable level of care, skill and expertise;
that you suffered some injury or damage;
that the lack of reasonable care taken was the cause of your injury or damage

If you think you can prove the above then the next step is to contact an experienced medical negligence lawyer to start the legal proceedings against your health care provider. After the incident has occurred there are strict time limits for claiming medical negligence so contact PK Simpson today to get your claim under way.