If you live in Shaftesbury and you are looking to make a medical negligence compensation
claim, you will not find the specialist solicitors you need in Shaftesbury.

However, Bonallack & Bishop [a well-established law firm who run this specialist website] are just a few miles away with offices in Salisbury and Fordingbridge and we have the specialist medical-legal team you need to win your claim.

FOR FREE SPECIALIST ADVICE – CALL US NOW ON  (01722) 422300

MEDICAL NEGLIGENCE – WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES A SPECIALIST MAKE?

Having a specialist medical negligence solicitor on your side makes a massive difference to your compensation claim.

To win the medical negligence compensation you deserve, a solicitor must be able to understand and cut through complex medical notes, x-rays and independent medical reports to pick out pieces of information that will be central to the case.

Generalist lawyers will simply not understand the complex medical language involved and as a result, could miss crucial pieces of evidence.

[NB Clinical negligence is the same thing as medical negligence].

WHAT SETS BONALLACK & BISHOP APART?

In a survey of over 400 of our clients, 98% of them said that they would recommend us to a friend – here’s why:

• Excellent client service: our solicitors will visit you in hospital or in the comfort of your own home – anywhere in Hampshire, Wiltshire or Dorset

• We offer initial phone advice FREE of charge

• Your first appointment (face-to-face or using Zoom video) for all medical negligence claims is also FREE of charge – with no strings attached

• We can pursue your claim under a no win, no fee arrangement so you don’t have to worry about paying a big legal bill if you lose.

SHAFTESBURY MEDICAL NEGLIGENCE CLAIMS – CALL 01722 422300

To give your claim the best possible chance of success contact our medical negligence team today today.

• JUST CALL US ON  01722 422300, or
• Use the email form below to reach our experts:

MEDICAL COMPENSATION CLAIM SPECIALISTS

Devizes is home not only to the NHS run Devizes Community Hospital and Green Lane Mental Hospital but also to a number of GP practices and private medical clinics. If you’ve been the victim of medical negligence in one of these units, or if you live in the Devizes area but have been the victim of a medical mistake at another hospital, perhaps at Salisbury District Hospital or the Great Western Hospital in Swindon, you could be entitled to claim compensation.

Whether it’s a missed diagnosis, a surgical procedure gone wrong or simple poor advice which has led to you suffering in some way as a result of the negligence, you should speak to a specialist medical negligence lawyer to see if you have grounds for compensation.

Of all compensation claims, those involving medical negligence are usually the most complex. And particularly if you have already placed your trust in a medical professional, you really don’t want to put your claim into the hands of a solicitor who is not a specialist in this sort of claim.

FOR FREE SPECIALIST ADVICE – CALL US NOW ON SALISBURY (01722) 422300

DEVIZES MEDICAL NEGLIGENCE CLAIM ? CALL(01722) 422300

If you are thinking about making a medical negligence claim, what’s the most important first step? Undoubtedly to find a solicitor with the right experience and specialist knowledge to support and represent you during what can be a stressful legal process.

At the time of writing this blog, none of the Devizes based law firms have a medical negligence specialist. We are Wiltshire based Solicitors and, fortunately, we do. And we are just based down the road with offices in Salisbury and Amesbury.

Our team includes members of the Law Society Personal Injury Panel. What’s more, if you decide to appoint us to represent you in your medical negligence claim, your case won’t be dealt with by a call centre operative or unqualified paralegal. Here at solicitors Bonallack and Bishop, all of our medical negligence team are fully qualified specialist medical negligence solicitors – and in addition one of them is also a qualified nurse, so can guarantee we have the right expertise to help you claim compensation.

FREE MEDICAL NEGLIGENCE ADVICE – CALL(01722) 422300

Your initial telephone advice and the first appointment are FREE.

HOME AND HOSPITAL VISITS IN DEVIZES

And if your medical condition means you simply can’t travel, then our team are happy to make home or hospital visits to you in Devizes or, in fact, anywhere in Wiltshire.

SHOULD I MAKE A COMPLAINT FIRST?

Yes. Bringing a complaint can play an important role in winning compensation.

An internal NHS complaint can help you get an answer as to what actually happened. It could also result in an admission of negligence from the hospital, GP surgery or clinic concerned.

LIVE IN DEVIZES? THINKING OF MAKING A MEDICAL NEGLIGENCE CLAIM – CONTACT US TODAY

If you have been the victim of a medical error, contact us now – for FREE initial phone advice and a FREE first appointment from our medical negligence specialists;

Bonallack and Bishop,
Rougemont House,
Rougemont Close,
Salisbury,
Wiltshire,
SP1 1LY

• Call us on (01722) 422300 or free on FREEPHONE 0800 1404544

• Fill in the contact form below

HAMPSHIRE BASED MEDICAL COMPENSATION CLAIM SPECIALISTS

The National Health Service is one of the UK’s best loved institutions and it isn’t hard to see why. It does its best to make sure that everyone who needs care gets it, regardless of their ability to pay – and the vast majority of the time that care is of an impressively high standard.

However, it has been estimated that around 5% of people are dissatisfied with the service and level of care they have received relating to the diagnosis and treatment of a condition. Some of these people go on to make medical negligence claims; around 7000 such claims are made every year.

BASINGSTOKE HOSPITAL – RECENT MEDICAL NEGLIGENCE CASES

When you’re relying on medical professionals to treat you properly, it can be devastating and infuriating when negligence causes you further health problems. In the case of a woman left with serious brain damage after Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital failed to diagnose a brain tumour, the NHS Trust accepted 90% liability and is due a multi-million pound compensation payout.

After a 5-month-old baby died after a 7-hour wait at Frimley Park Hospital in nearby Farnborough in August 2012, he was left for seven hours before being discharged without seeing a senior specialist. His condition deteriorated and he was rushed back into hospital, where he died at 6am the next morning from meningococcal septicaemia.

Do you live in Basingstoke? Have you been injured as a result of negligent practice from a doctor or other medical professional?

We can help – our Hampshire and Wiltshire and Hampshire medical negligence team are here to help you win the compensation you deserve.

HAMPSHIRE HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST – THEIR POOR MEDICAL NEGLIGENCE RECORD IN RECENT YEARS

Worryingly, the health trust which runs which runs Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, as well as Andover War Memorial Hospital and the Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester,  has had a series of serious medical errors resulting in considerable compensation being paid out.

Of the 260 health trusts listed in a recent BBC report, Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was ranked 68th in terms of those trusts which had to pay out the highest total of medical compensation. In fact between 2012 and 2017, the trust paid out more than £39 million in damages and legal costs.

In addition to these figures, the South Central Ambulance Service , which also serves the Basingstoke area, apparently paid out £6.2 million in medical compensation between 2012 and 2017 as well.

BASINGSTOKE HOSPITAL – THE LATEST CQC REPORT

Compared with some of the other hospitals in the south that they looked at, the latest inspection ratings published by the government health regulator in November 2015, the Care Quality Commission, doesn’t look too bad.

In fact the best news for those people in the Basingstoke area who rely on hospital for their medical treatment, is that the overall description in the report was “good”.

However there were some areas for concern. In particular the report concluded that safety issues “required improvement”. Staffing levels in some of the surgical and medical wards didn’t reach safe levels – and in particular, there were more than expected incidence what are referred to as “avoidable harms – e.g. falls and pressure ulcers.

MEDICAL NEGLIGENCE – WHY YOU NEED A SPECIALIST SOLICITOR

Medical negligence claims only involve a particularly complex area of law, but they also need a high level of expertise in understanding the medical issues in your case – which is essential to gather the evidence you need to win your claim, and which will often, for example, require careful analysis of hundreds of pages of medical notes and an ability to understand medical x-rays.

You can rest assured that the medical negligence team here at Bonallack & Bishop have the specialist expertise you need.

YOUR MEDICAL NEGLIGENCE CLAIM – WHY INSTRUCT US?

o We are a local law firm – Bonallack and Bishop – with offices in Andover and Salisbury. We represent clients throughout Wiltshire and Hampshire.

o We are not a claims management company, or a remote call centre law firm – so you will meet and be represented by a specialist solicitor you will come to loan trust

o Medical negligence claim often involves highly personal information – we offer you a choice of male or female solicitor to represent you

o We offer a FREE initial phone consultation and FREE first face-to-face meeting

o Home and hospital visits are available in Basingstoke [and throughout Hampshire and Wiltshire] for those whose injuries prevent them from travelling

o There is no need to worry about paying legal costs of your medical negligence claim – we are on the panel of most of the major legal insurers, and offer “no win no fee” arrangements

DON’T RISK LOSING YOUR RIGHT TO CLAIM

But don’t leave it too long because there are strict time limits for making a claim – and leaving it as little as three years from the actual negligent incident, could mean you lose out on your right to claim compensation entirely.

Call us today to avoid making that kind of mistake.

NEED HELP WITH A MEDICAL NEGLIGENCE CLAIM IN BASINGSTOKE? CONTACT US TODAY

If you have been the victim of a negligent medical professional, our specialist team can help.

To help you win the compensation you are entitled to, get in touch with our specialist medical negligence solicitors today.

• Call us on 01264 364433 or FREEPHONE 0800 1404544,
  OR
• Send us an email using the contact form below

Genuine expert medical negligence solicitors are hard to come by, but our specialists have the expertise you need to successfully win the compensation that innocent victims of medical errors deserve.

If you live in Winchester, we can help. Running  medical negligence claims from our local offices in Salisbury and Andover, our expert team understand the difficulties that medical negligence can cause to victims and we can minimise the stress involved in the claims process, allowing you to concentrate on recuperating.

WHAT IS MEDICAL NEGLIGENCE?

Medical negligence takes place when the doctor or medical professional in question is in breach of their duty of care towards you as their patient. This means that they must have failed to treat you to the reasonable standard of care that you would expect from someone of their position and experience.

What’s more, even if they have breached that duty of care and therefore are negligent, you can’t claim compensation unless you’ve suffered some sort of direct physical injury as a result.

However be warned –making a claim for medical negligence can the slow, so it is crucial that get specialist legal advice it as soon as you think you might have been the victim of a medical error

ROYAL HAMPSHIRE COUNTY HOSPITAL – A CATALOGUE OF RECENT PROBLEMS

If you’ve been the victim of medical negligence, the effects can be truly devastating. In the case of an Andover woman born at the Royal Hampshire County Hospital, the repercussions of medical negligence were lifelong.

Becky Crothall was born at the Winchester hospital in 1988, one of twins, and birthing complications arising from the hospital staff failing to recognise the need for an emergency Caesarean meant that she developed cerebral palsy and learning difficulties. Tragically, her twin died. Nowadays Becky cannot be left unsupervised and is classed as a vulnerable adult. After taking the NHS Trust to court, she was awarded a huge financial payout.

More recently, in January 2015, the emergency department at the Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester was the centre of the scandal when despite struggling to cope with patient admissions for a four-day period, the hospital management simply refused to formally declare it as a “major incident” in the face of repeated requests to do so from a number of their senior doctors. Why? Allegedly because it “would look bad in the media” and the Trust would be fined. This is despite the fact that at its worst, the hospital had approximately 25 patients dumped in the ambulance corridor, with the condition of some patients being serious enough to require being given oxygen.

Interestingly, in one recent survey of hospitals in England and Wales, the Royal Hampshire County Hospital scored what was referred to as a “smart rating” of 94%  and was described as “ one of the best hospitals in the nation based on current indicators and hospital studies”. However strangely, the same survey found that just 67% of the staff actually employed their recommend the hospital! What’s going on there?

UPDATE – ROYAL HAMPSHIRE COUNTY HOSPITAL – THE LATEST CQC REPORT

The latest report by the care quality commission on Winchester’s own hospital, run by the Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is reasonably positive.

In general those living in or around the Winchester area will be pleased to know that the hospital was described In the report published by the CQC in November 2015as “good. Let’s hope they keep up the apparent progress.

However safety issues were described as requiring improvement and in particular the inspection rating found that outpatients also “requires improvement”. That’s a concern given how many local people use outpatients – with 211,418 people  attending outpatient services in 2014. The report was critical in particular of what it described as, “one serious incident requiring investigation “where a patient ‘s health needs simply weren’t followed up at all.

The trust was also reported to have a disappointingly high number of clinics cancelled at short notice.

THE NEED TO INSTRUCT A SPECIALIST MEDICAL NEGLIGENCE SOLICITOR

Medical negligence is a very difficult area of law and few solicitors are genuine specialists. Those without sufficient experience and expertise of medical negligence claims are unlikely to win the full compensation you deserve. It’s essential to really understand both law and medicine as the success of your case will depend on a thorough understanding of medical issues and procedure, and the ability to understand the detail of many different kinds of medical evidence, including your GP or hospital notes, specialist reports and x-rays.

Furthermore, our firm – along with just 120 or so others [out of almost 11,000 law firms] nationwide – has been awarded the Law Society’s Specialist Quality Mark for Clinical Negligence.

And in addition, our medical claims team consists only of experienced and qualified solicitors – your case is not run by a call centre junior but by an individual local solicitor. And what’s more, one of those solicitors is also a qualified and experienced nurse.

WHY CHOOSE US FOR YOUR MEDICAL NEGLIGENCE CLAIM?

o We are not a claims company or a faceless call centre operation. We are Bonallack and Bishop, a local law firm with offices near to Winchester [in Salisbury, Amesbury and Andover] who specialise in medical negligence cases

o We offer both initial phone advice and a first consultation FREE of charge

o We can visit you at home or in hospital anywhere in Wiltshire, Hampshire and Dorset, if you are too unwell to travel

o You needn’t worry about funding your claim either, because we offer ‘no win, no fee’ agreements for medical negligence claims

o We understand that some medical negligence claims involve very personal information – so you have a choice of a male or female solicitor to run your case

NEED ADVICE ON A MEDICAL NEGLIGENCE CLAIM IN WINCHESTER? CONTACT US NOW

If you have been the victim of medical negligence, our medical negligence team can help you. For the compensation you deserve, simply get in touch with us today.

For FREE initial advice from expert Medical Negligence Solicitors you can trust

• Call our team now FREE on FREEPHONE 0800 1404544, or call one of our local offices directly on Salisbury [01722] 422300 or Andover [01264] 364433
  OR
• Email us using the contact form below