If your medical care was substandard and you were treated as a private patient, you can also claim for breach of contract. Personal injury as well as nervous shock or even death can occur in all forms of medical care. If these instances are a result of negligence then you are entitled to compensation.

The first step to compensation is to find out if you actually have a case.  A specialist clinical negligence solicitor will be able to look at the facts of the case and be able to tell you if you are indeed entitled to compensation. The medical negligence will have to have resulted in an injury, illness or a lasting medical condition in order for your claim to be successful.

Sometimes many years pass between the instance of negligence and the resulting condition presenting itself in the patient. In these cases, it may be harder to prove that the condition did in fact arise out of medical negligence but compensation should still be sought where it is due.