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Why When Medical Professionals Make Mistakes We Call It Clinical Negligence
Suffering an injury is something that will happen to us all throughout the course of our lives. For some the results of the injury may be minor, maybe a small cut or a scratch that can be treated and covered and life goes on.
For others the results of suffering an injury may be more serious. Hospital stays, long and painful treatments and the chance that life may never return to the standard and quality that we had enjoyed originally. All you can hope for is that your wounds will heal, you will continue to recover and life will move on and continue to improve.
For some people life will never go back to the way it was before. Accidents in the medical profession happen and there seems to be a rising number of clinical negligence cases being logged with lawyers. With the stresses and strains that are placed upon the medical professionals in the UK it seems almost inevitable that errors and mistakes will happen. The NHS and private sector are currently feeling the strain and pressure being placed on the service from the onslaught of medical viruses and infections.
MRSA, swine-flu, avian-flu - in the last twelve months all of these have put members of the medical profession under increasing strain and pressure. The government has put in place measures to make sure that the best levels of practise and protection are followed, but sometimes accidents can happen and problems can occur. A number of these cases have left people with long term illness or disability that will alter the way they live their lives forever and when this happens the first thing most client's will want to do is hit out at those responsible, claiming malpractice and clinical negligence as the cause for their suffering.
In the world that we currently live in, there are a number of solicitors and firms that are offering no win, no fee compensation for clients that wish to take on parties that have been injured as a result of clinical negligence. The company's fee for the claim is recovered from the other party within the lawsuit that is placed against the defendant.
It is important to remember that the medical profession is performing a service to the best of its ability, however mistakes will always be made and as much as we would like to live in a perfect world where there were no accidents and no mistakes it just won't happen. Whether it is clinical negligence is a topic that is up for debate. Everyone in life makes mistakes, at work, at home and when under pressure. To deny people of the medical profession that right may be considered slightly hypocritical, but at the same time, no one should suffer without the right to claim, so it is a tricky subject to judge.
Is it correct to sue for clinical negligence? The debate will rage on but nothing will change in the short term.
About the Author Anna Stenning is a journalist specialising in law with many years of experience in the judicial system. Find out more about clinical negligence at http://www.stewartslaw.com/
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