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Common causes of gynaecology negligence claims
- Failure, misdiagnosis or delay in diagnosis
- Inadequate investigations
- Mismanagement of acute or chronic conditions
- Failure or delay in treatment or surgery
- Lack of informed consent prior to a procedure
- Surgical error
- Contraindicated or inappropriate treatment
- Contraindicated or inappropriate prescriptions
- Sub-standard post-operative after-care
- Inappropriate or premature discharge
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Common injuries caused by gynaecology medical negligence
- Urinary or faecal incontinence
Failure to diagnose, delay in treatment and surgical errors and can cause injury to the reproductive and surrounding area leading to new, worsened or permanent incontinence.
- Bladder and bowel injuries due to surgical error
- Cervical smear test error injuries
- Unnecessary hysterectomy
- Uterus Perforation
This can happen during surgery including during the insertion of contraceptive devices and during diagnostic procedures such as laparoscopy,
- TVT / Mesh injuries
Such injuries include pain, bleeding, bladder infection, worsening incontinence, constipation, neuropathic pain, fistulas and perforation of nearby organs.
- Infertility
Loss of infertility can be due to infection after a gynaecological operation. Delayed diagnosis of cancer can lead to aggressive treatment (surgery, chemotherapy, radiotherapy) which may not have been needed if the cancer had been diagnosed earlier. Such treatments can unfortunately affect fertility. Loss of fertility may mean you need fertility treatment including IVF, egg harvesting, egg freezing, egg donors or a surrogate pregnancy to enable conception, all of which can be very costly financially.
- Death
- Psychological / emotional injury
The emotional trauma of any gynaecological clinical negligence injury can led to emotional and psychological issues requiring treatment.
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How we can help you claim compensation for gynaecology negligence
It can take courage and can initially feel daunting approaching a medical negligence solicitor. This is particularly so when wishing to challenge the treatment and care provided by a highly qualified professional, who we hold in high regard and who we place our health and trust in.
It is important to appreciate that mistakes happen in any situation involving human beings, regardless of how well trained, skilled, experienced and caring they are. Where mistakes are made and harm is caused with regard to patient care there are consequences that may lead you to consider instructing a solicitor to bring legal action on your behalf.
You may not be considering financial compensation once medical negligence has arisen - you may want to make sure that nobody else experiences the same injury that you did. This is entirely understandable. As humans, we trust in the training and expertise of our healthcare professionals and don’t expect harm to be caused. Many patients want lessons to be learned to prevent further harm for others.
Pursuing a claim against a healthcare professional (public and private) does raise awareness. Pursuing a claim leads to investigation and scrutiny and consideration of existing policies and procedures and to further training. It also allows for a financial settlement to be awarded which places a patient in a better position than they may have otherwise been.
