Medication Error Compensation

The most common types of Complications involving drugs or drug treatment can involve: ✓ An overdose due to a doctor or pharmacist's mistake ✓ , congenital disabilities from medicine given to mothers during pregnancy ✓ Toxic drug interactions (during antibiotic treatment and chemotherapy, for example) ✓ Issues from cholesterol-lowering drugs ✓ Aminophylline overdose ✓ Issues from ✓ Improperly monitoring drugs used to treat chronic conditions such as asthma, hypertension and psychiatric illness ✓ Anaesthesia issues ✓ A stroke caused by experimental drugs used to treat a ✓ Heart attack ✓ Hearing loss from Gentamicin toxicity.

No Win, No Fee is an agreement with your solicitor that means that you can make a medication error claim with: ✓ no upfront legal fees ✓ no solicitor's fees payable if your claim is not successful ✓ a success fee payable only if your claim is successful. No Win, No Fee is the most common way to make a compensation claim. No win, no fee promise. Our no win, no fee guarantee means there is absolutely no financial risk in making a medication error claim, even if you don't win your claim.

Your solicitor will handle your medication error claim from the initial consultation through to the financial settlement. Also, your solicitor will work with other specialists to help you with ✓ Financial support: interim payments while you are unable to work. ✓ Advice: on personal injury trusts, tax and welfare benefits. ✓ Coordination: with rehabilitation providers and therapists. ✓ Access: to treatment and therapies not always available on the NHS.

The National Patient Safety Agency defines a medication error as any error is made in the prescribing, dispensing, preparing, administering, monitoring or providing medical advice, regardless of whether any harm occurred. Examples of medication error can include the following: ✓ Being prescribed the wrong drugs ✓ Receiving a too-high dosage ✓ Receiving the wrong strength of drug ✓ Time errors, where drugs are given earlier or later than planned ✓ Administering medication to a patient who has an allergic reaction to an ingredient in the medication ✓ Administering unauthorised medication ✓ Combining medications that should not be taken together, such that one medicine contraindicates the other.