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GP negligence claims
If your GP failed to diagnose your condition or made a mistake in treating you, the effects can be devastating. If you’ve suffered an injury as a result of medical negligence, LPS’s specialist legal experts can help get the compensation you deserve.
What are GP negligence claims?
Your GP is often the first place you go for medical help. It’s important at this early stage that your symptoms are taken seriously and that you receive the correct medication, the most appropriate treatment and, if necessary, are referred to a specialist. If your GP provided a poor standard of care and as a result, you’re suffering from a subsequent injury or illness, you may be entitled to claim compensation due to medical negligence.
How do I know if I have a claim for GP negligence?
The National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) has guidelines in place to help GPs provide treatment and make referrals. Failure to follow those guidelines can result in negligent treatment or diagnosis and the patient can suffer as a result. Examples of these include:
Diagnosis errors
If your condition has been made worse because your GP:
- Failed to make a diagnosis
- Failed to refer you to a specialist to obtain a diagnosis
- Failed to refer you for further tests to obtain a diagnosis
- Failed to read the results correctly which resulted in a misdiagnosis
Treatment errors
If your condition has been made worse because your GP
- Didn’t conduct a physical exam
- Didn’t take your medical history into account
- Didn’t provide the correct medication
- Neglected you
If you’ve suffered as a result of a diagnosis error or treatment error, you may have the right to compensation. Contact our specialists for advice on making a No Win No Fee claim.
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How much can I claim for a GP negligence case?
Every case of negligence is different, and the final amount of compensation awarded will be based on the severity of the injury and the affect the injury has had on your life. Additionally, you’ll also be able to claim for any lost earnings, any long term care and rehabilitation to maximise the chance of recovery and independent living.
How much time do I have to claim?
If you believe you have a claim, it’s important that you seek advice from a lawyer who specialises in medical negligence cases as soon as possible, as there are time limits in place in England, Scotland and Wales. Generally, a claim should be made within three years from the date the negligence occurred or the date you were first aware that you’d suffered a significant injury or illness due to negligence.
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Nadia HussainFrequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
Who will pay the compensation?
It is very rare for the employer concerned to actually shoulder the payment of industrial disease compensation. In the vast majority of cases compensation comes from your employer's "Employers Liability Insurance". It is a legal requirement for all UK employers to have a policy of this type.
Furthermore, in the event that you are still employed by the defendant there are a number of legal safeguards in place to protect you from unfair dismissal or discrimination made on the basis of your claim.
Can I claim compensation following work in Scotland, if I now live outside of Scotland?
Yes. Many of our claimants now live abroad in locations such as France, South Africa and Australia. If you worked in Scotland before you moved overseas, you can bring a claim for compensation in the usual way.
If a family member has died as a result of an industrial disease, can we make a claim?
It is possible to claim compensation on behalf of a deceased family member. However, the claim must be brought within three years of the date of death. Similarly, if the claimant dies during the course of the case, the family can continue with the claim on his or her behalf.
However, if your family member has an industrial disease and later dies from an unrelated incident, you would have three years to claim in respect of the work related illness from the date they knew or ought to have known they were suffering from the condition, not from the date of the unrelated death.
What are the time limits for industrial disease claims?
You can make a claim up to three years from the date the you knew or ought to have known that you were suffering from a work-related illness, or three years from the date of last exposure to any substance or process which has caused the condition (whichever is the later date).
Given that many industrial diseases take a long time to develop, it may be that you need to make a claim decades after the firm responsible for your illness has ceased to trade. But, as long as it is within three years of diagnosis of an industrial disease, it may still be possible to claim compensation when retired or no longer work for the former employer responsible for causing your illness.
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