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Making a GP claim for medical negligence with YouClaim

When a patient visits their doctor they expect to get the correct treatment in a timely manner, but if a GP makes a mistake it is possible that the patient may need to seek the advice of a medical negligence solicitor in order to make a GP claim for compensation.

Getting the best care from a GP
Going to a GP's surgery or a clinic is a routine part of life for most people and all patients have the right to expect to be treated by competent staff who are adequately trained. However, this does not always appear to be the case and medical accidents do occur.

In order to prove that GP clinical negligence has occurred, the claimant and their team of solicitors will have to illustrate that a doctor acted incompetently, unreasonably or failed in some way which resulted in harm to the patient.

It is not enough to prove that another doctor may have treated the patient in a different manner to that which occurred for medical negligence to be the case. The claimant must prove that no other competent health professional would have performed in the same way given the same evidence and under best-practice of the day.

GP claims for medical negligence can be made in respect of the following:

  • Failing to effectively examine a patient;

  • Failing to refer a patient for specialist tests;

  • Failing to make a home visit based on description of symptoms which would suggest the patient required treatment;

  • Failing to act on or follow up test results;

  • Failing to diagnose a serious illness;

  • Failing to keep full and adequate medical records;

  • Making a wrong diagnosis;

  • Issuing incorrect medication or faulty prescription;

  • Mismanaged or botched medical procedures.

YouClaim solicitors for GP claims
The medical negligence solicitors at YouClaim have many years' experience in handling all types of clinical negligence claims and can act on your behalf wherever you are in the UK.

All our solicitors are accredited by the Solicitors Regulation Authority so you can rest assured that their professionalism and levels of representation are of the highest standards.

To find out if you have a valid claim against a GP for medical negligence please call YouClaim on 0800 10 757 95. Alternatively, contact us via the internet by clicking on the Live Help button, or by filling in one of our online claim forms to arrange for us to call you at a time to suit you.

Whichever way you chose to get in touch with us here at YouClaim, you can be sure that we will always speak to you in plain English and will strive to make the GP claims process as stress-free as possible.

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