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Our national team are recognised experts in resolving disputes concerning the provision of medical and aesthetic care for private healthcare providers, including private individuals, clinics and hospitals.
We know that every adverse outcome involves an injured patient and their family and significant personal and financial cost for healthcare insureds as well as those insuring them. With a team of over 60 specialist in 4 offices we provide advice on investigating and managing complaints and investigations and represent private medical malpractice insurers when claims are made throughout the UK.
We are a Band 1 ranked team in Chambers and manage over 3,000 medical malpractice cases at any one time with values form £50 through to £50m. We have a proven track record for robustly defending unmeritorious claims at trial. We provide assistance, advice and representation on regulatory issues and at inquests from inception. We are able to provide a comprehensive mediation and Alternative Dispute Resolution Service with direct access to nationally recognised mediators.
We cover all types of medical treatment including (but not exclusively):
- Accident and Emergency
- Bariatric surgery
- Cardiothoracic surgery
- Catastrophic injury cases resulting in acquired brain injury and/or paraplegia
- Cosmetic and aesthetic surgery and treatment
- Dental claims
- Fertility and gynaecology services
- General Surgery
- Neurosurgery
- Obstetric and neonatal cases valued up to £50 million
- Out of hours GP services
- Orthopaedic and trauma cases from missed fracture to amputations
- Ophthalmology
- Prison healthcare
- Transplant surgery
- Wrongful birth cases
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We work with private health care providers – individuals, clinics and hospitals - across the UK and internationally.
Our work includes:
- The investigation and advice on complaint
- Drafting Letters of Response under the Pre-Action Protocol for Clinical Negligence
- Undertaking preliminary expert and witness investigations
- Managing litigated cases under delegated authority
- Directly managing cases from letter of claim to trial in all courts
- Preparing and conducting mediation
- Negotiating the resolution of cases directly
- Risk management advice including advising on opportunities to learn from claims and improve patient safety
- Training on legal issues and their practical implications
- Advising on and representation at inquests
- Advising on and representation at professional disciplinary matters Providing a first class service is not only about experience of claims, inquests and regulatory matters but also expertise. Many of our lawyers are individually recognized as leaders in the field. In working to resolve disputes, we aim to be tenacious, thorough and commercial to provide the best results whilst recognizing the impact of a dispute on all those involved. We believe in a personal service that is designed to achieve the best outcome.We draw on an extensive database of experienced medico-legal experts and counsel when advising on complex matters
Our work is sensitive. We advise in a number of different areas – litigation, inquest and regulation. We operate at the forefront of developments in medical mal practice and have taken cases to trial and to the appeal courts.
Examples of significant reported cases for private insurers include:
- Williams v Bermuda Hospitals Board [2016] UKPC 4 where the Privy Council were invited to provide guidance on material contribution.
- KW v T (1) & M (2) v a Private Hospital Cosmetic surgery where the court provided guidance on the issue of informed consent and what constituted an appropriate "cooling off" period prior to breast augmentation and liposuction.
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