WILTSHIRE BASED MEDICAL COMPENSATION CLAIM SPECIALISTS 

Medical negligence can happen anywhere, but when it happens in your home town with medical professionals who you trust, it can be particularly distressing. But you may be entitled to claim compensation for your injuries. And that’s where our specialist medical negligence solicitors come in.

WHY ONLY SPECIALIST MEDICAL NEGLIGENCE SOLICITORS WILL DO

In order to win your medical compensation claim, your solicitors will need to extract crucial pieces of information to be used in evidence from complicated medical records. This requires a good understanding of medicine as well as legal expertise and only specialists will have this kind of knowledge across the two professions.

If you instruct us, your case will not be run by an inexperienced junior – but by an experienced solicitor from our team who you will meet. So if you instruct our medical negligence team you can be sure that you have experts running your claim.

HOW WE CAN HELP YOU

Here at Wiltshire law firm, Bonallack & Bishop, our specialist medical negligence solicitors offer:

• FREE initial telephone advice
• A FREE first appointment – face-to-face, by phone or using Zoom video
• No win no fee agreements – so you need not worry about how you will pay legal fees
• Home or hospital visits – we understand that your injuries may prevent you from coming into one of our offices to speak to us in person, which is why our solicitors are happy to visit clients in Chippenham, or indeed anywhere in Wiltshire, at home or in hospital if they have trouble travelling.

Performance & Safety Concerns for Hospitals Serving Trowbridge

Patients in Trowbridge are served by the local Chippenham Community Hospital, but many will go to the 2 large acute hospitals locally – the Great Western Hospital in Swindon, or the Royal United Hospital in Bath.

And the news isn’t good for patients from Trowbridge needing to attend hospital in Swindon or by

As of the September 2025 NHS league tables, Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is ranked 76th among acute NHS trusts in England. That places it firmly in the bottom half of hospital trust nationwide. This placement reflects several areas of underperformance including elective waiting times, emergency care delays, and difficulty meeting national targets.

But much worse news concerns RUH. The same table shows Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust among the very worst acute trusts, ranking at 112 placing the RUH in the category of the worst performing trusts nationwide.

Sadly this is nothing new. The Care Quality Commission (CQC) most recently inspected Royal United Hospital Bath and found widespread areas needing improvement. Its overall rating is “Requires Improvement.” Specific concerns included failures in the “Safe”, “Responsive” and “Well-led” domains. In particular, inspectors flagged issues in medical wards caring for older people, problems in urgent and emergency services, and inadequacies in leadership and governance.

Great Western Hospital has also had negative findings in recent past inspections, particularly around maternity care, safety oversight, and record keeping, although specific recent CQC reports for Great Western reflecting the same level of critique are less prominent in publicly available sources.

And these concerns about the standard of medical treatment locally are nothing new. For example, back in 2009, a Chippenham man fell and injured his wrist and hand whilst playing football. The X-ray service at Chippenham Community Hospital x-rayed his wrist and those x-rays were then reviewed at the Royal United Hospital in Bath, but both missed a fractured left scaphoid.

Six months later when he returned to his GP to complain of discomfort, the fracture was finally spotted. Due to requiring more extensive medical treatment and a longer period of recovery due to the hospital’s negligence, the Hospital Trust settled on a compensation figure of £15,000 which was paid to the man in 2011.

LOOKING FOR CHIPPENHAM MEDICAL NEGLIGENCE SOLICITORS? CONTACT US TODAY

Have you suffered medical negligence at the hands of Chippenham Community Hospital, or Great Western or the Royal United Hospital?

Don’t delay. If you leave it too long to start the medical negligence compensation claims process you may find that you lose the right to claim the compensation you deserve entirely. So, to avoid missing out;

• Call us now free on FREEPHONE 0800 1404544, or locally on Salisbury (01722) 422300 today, or
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