Legal advice following treatment without consent
Modern medical procedures are often complicated and difficult to understand. This means that doctors and other medical professionals must take extra care to ensure that their patients understand the treatment being offered to them and to ensure proper consent is given.
The treatment of a patient of sound mind requires his or her consent. Consent to medical treatment will not be valid if the nature and purpose of the proposed treatment have not been explained in broad terms to the patient. A claim of negligence may lie if the risks of proposed treatment are not explained properly and no responsible body of medical opinion would approve of the failure to disclose those risks.
It can be difficult to know whether you may be suffering due to medical negligence. This is why we offer a completely free no obligation consultation. Please call us on 0114 2752888 and talk to one of our medical negligence solicitors.
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£110,000 compensation awarded to client who was not fully informed of the risks of surgery on a broken leg.
'Our client was awarded £110,000 compensation for the failure to warn of the high risk of knee pain following closed nailing of a leg fracture. The compensation was awarded in the light of the patient’s occupation as a miner and the failure to give him the option of external fixation, which carries no risk of knee pain. As a result, he was unable to return to work as a miner because of continuing and permanent knee pain and instead had to take a sedentary job at a lower wage.”
John Hodgson
Head of Medical Law and Clinical Negligence