MEDICAL NEGLIGENCE

Health care providers must provide treatment that is in accordance with a reasonable standard of care. Injuries can sometimes result during the course of surgery or treatment due to a poor outcome but negligent treatment goes beyond being a reasonable mistake or error. If your health care provider fails to take "reasonable care" then they have breached their duty of care to you and you or your family may be eligible for compensation.

Claims can also be for ‘failure to warn’ or lack of informed consent, where a practitioner has not fully explained the risks of a procedure or medication which the patient may have refused.

Examples of medical negligence claims may include:

• Antenatal testing failures
  Failure to recommend testing or errors in reading tests for conditions such as Downs Syndrome.
• Pregnancy & labour management
  Failure to monitor and treat conditions during pregnancy or respond to fetal distress
• Surgical errors
  Damage to major structures, such as the femoral nerve.
  

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