Our team of specialist medical negligence and personal injury lawyers, led by Partner Ian Horner, has in-depth expertise in medical negligence claims and has successfully obtained compensation in numerous cases involving GPs, from failing to diagnose a condition to failing to order further tests or refer a patient to see a specialist.  We ensure that our clients are compensated for their physical suffering, mental distress and for any money they have lost or had to spend as a result of the way they have been treated.

We have experience in supporting clients in claims against their GPs in the NHS and private practices in Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire and throughout the UK arising out of a range of circumstances, including failing to: –

• Diagnose a condition
• Diagnose a condition as quickly as it should have been diagnosed
• Diagnose the correct condition
• Provide the right treatment
• Provide treatment as quickly as it should have been provided
• Order tests
• Interpret test results correctly
• Refer a patient to a specialist
• Pass on or action information received about a patient

A GP or nurse practitioner may be guilty of negligence if someone in their care has suffered a personal injury or died and the cause stems from a failure to:

• Take a full medical history
• Have regard to a patient’s medical history
• Properly examine a patient
• Order appropriate tests
• Seek a second opinion where needed
• Interpret test results correctly
• Obtain a patient’s consent to treatment
• Warn a patient about the risks and side effects of treatment
• Carry out appropriate health checks before treatment
• Spot problems after treatment, including the onset of infection