[Closed] Recommend me a firm of ambulance chasing lawyers

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Sensible answers. Write to the trust involved with your concerns first.

I’d look for a local solicitor who you can meet face to face.  I’d probably look for a firm big enough that they have experience defending (rather than just pursuing) claims for reasonable sized firms.  You get a different understanding of how “the other side” thinks doing that, which should help you get better advice and a more rounded opinion on success etc.

Good luck with that.  If it involves the NHS then they have the best lawyers courtesy of the taxpayer.

Already done, got nowhere except for an attempt to blame a neighbouring trust who were involved.

I don't want to go into too many details but they have massively ballsed up and I'm suffering the consequences. I have a number of friends and relatives who are NHS front line employees and all of them have said along the lines of "that's negligent, you should contact a solicitor".

Just to add that even if it is a clear-cut case there's no guarantee a no win no fee company will take it on, in my experience.

The NHS does mess up and pays up big time when it does, sometimes rightly so. Pursue if you feel you need answers or to try and stop it happening again. Your NHS friends may be right but they can also be way wide of the mark without knowing the full facts. Take care and good luck with what ever path you choose.

Yep I would agree with CG, my mum has gone through 4 solicitors trying to get her lawsuit from the NHS, insufficient training caused an injury that forced her out of her job and into disability and unable to work again.  Almost 9 years now and they've only just gone to court to set dates for court proceedings...

Good Luck.

I don’t want to go into too many details but they have massively ballsed up and I’m suffering the consequences. I have a number of friends and relatives who are NHS front line employees and all of them have said along the lines of “that’s negligent, you should contact a solicitor”.

And they may well be correct, but you should be prepared for the solicitor to have a less enthusiastic response.  I know of two people who have received sizeable compensation - but only after a number of years, and presumably there were several others who tried and failed because whilst there were undoubtedly poor outcomes, and probably even mistakes made the link between them, and perhaps most significantly the expectation that no competent clinician would have made those mistakes is not easy to prove.  Treat your friends and family's opinion with a pinch of salt.  Its much easier to say, "that's terrible, it should never have happened" than, "tough luck buttercup, he's a doctor not a miracle worker".  Moreover, those people are probably neither expert witnesses in the exact area of specialism you need, nor legally qualified so probably not actually aware of the legal test for medical negligence.  If you've got multiple trusts involved - then things only get more complex.

If you lawyer up immediately, it may make it harder for the Trust and individual clinicians to reflect on their practice and make changes which will stop it happening to some other poor bugger.

If you go through the NHS complaints procedure initially, you can still turn to the courts to look for compensation if that is appropriate.

Well I have a letter from the Trust in response to my initial complaint where they said they had rechecked and no need for any sort of follow up and another from a consultant spinal surgeon who I just saw on BUPA to my GP pointing out the much more serious fracture clearly visible on the original CT that was missed and all the other red flags so dont know how much more evidence I need. Fracture still hasn't united 4 months later....

Irwin Mitchell if you want a sensible recommendation.

You’ll need a lot more evidence than my Dr I went to see at BUPA now I know the diagnosis knows the the diagnosis.

I don't quite understand what you mean Drac. The BUPA consultant is the one who diagnosed the much more serious fracture from the original CT scan the NHS did.

Thanks dannybgoode

Ah right I thought you’d seen him post diagnosis. Sorry.

Ison Harrison in Leeds , I have no personal interest having left over  10 years ago . But their med neg department was very good .

Slater and Gordon, offices all over the place and very experienced.

(One of the biggest in the country)

How did the private Consultant get to see the NHS scan?

Unfortunately mistakes happen in the NHS.  It is under funded. Trainees get less training than they used to, do imaging is reviewed remotely in another part of the world, sometimes human error happens as  the radiologist is having to do 20 things at once.

Yes they missed the diagnosis, but is taking money out of the system the solution?

Here's mrsmidlife's firm, in case you are local ish, but they operate regionally and nationally too,  single office high street solicitors, but very well respected and literally wrote the book on how to manage injury and negligence claims. All the people on the website are real and have bums on seats in the office in Doncaster.

Disclaimer in cased you missed it, this pays the bills in our house.

https://www.athertongodfrey.co.uk/

Yes they missed the diagnosis, but is taking money out of the system the solution?

Depends, if the OP has suffered financial harm through being unable to work, then what other recourse does he have?

And sadly, the capacity to learn from mistakes in the NHS is often still dependent on a financial tariff being applied to them.

Good luck.  Botched minor op here and got no-where. Been in pain since for last 6 years, and am on meds for the knackered body parts.

"How did the private Consultant get to see the NHS scan?"

Consultants work in both NHS and private practice and NHS data security is dire. When I went to see the NHS consultant as a private patient my NHS records were miraculously available to her.