Diabetes claims

Diabetes negligence is when you receive medical care below that which any medical professional would provide. It is diabetes negligence when you receive medical care below acceptable standards that directly impacts your health.

If you go to the doctor with the symptoms of diabetes and they fail to diagnose your condition, it is diabetes negligence. When a doctor does not prescribe you the correct medication, it is diabetes negligence.

Ambulance paramedics and A&E doctors, and nurses are trained to recognise the effects of diabetes. When they fail to treat you correctly, it is diabetes negligence.

With any form of diabetes negligence, your health will suffer.

You can make a claim for diabetes negligence, and a No Win No Fee medical negligence solicitor will handle your case.

Diabetes is a disease where your blood sugar levels become too high. It is a lifelong condition, and diabetes will damage your health if not treated correctly.

Your body breaks down the food you eat into glucose which enters the bloodstream to be converted into energy, which in turn is transferred to your cells. The blood sugar levels are controlled by insulin, which you produce in the pancreas.

If your body does not produce enough insulin or insulin of insufficient quality, the blood sugar levels can go too high.

When you cannot break down the blood sugar levels to feed your body, you will become sluggish and suffer the symptoms of your type of diabetes.

Type 1 diabetes is when your pancreas makes too little or no insulin. Without producing the correct amount of insulin, your body cannot control your blood sugar levels.

Once known as juvenile diabetes or insulin-dependent diabetes, Type 1 diabetes is a life-long condition with no known cure. Type 1 diabetes is usually diagnosed at a young age but can also develop in adulthood.

Treatment for Type 1 diabetes includes trying to stabilise insulin levels, lifestyle adjustments, and a healthy diet.

Type 2 diabetes is when the blood sugar levels become too high or difficult to manage. It is caused by either the body not producing enough insulin or by not correctly using the insulin it does produce.

A family history of diabetes, a bad diet and lack of activity are all indicators of developing Type 2 diabetes. It is a lifelong condition, and the symptoms can arise at any age.

You may need to take diabetes medications to manage Type 2 diabetes, but changes in diet and staying active can be very successful in treating the condition.

Prediabetes is when you are showing early signs of developing the disease. Checking for signs of diabetes is very important when there is a family history of developing the condition.

A simple urine test can show increased levels of indicators and will tell your doctor if you are at risk of developing diabetes. If you are overweight and have problems with exercising, your chances of developing diabetes increase.

Referring you for further tests or advising you of lifestyle changes can affect your diabetes and may even lessen the long-term effects.

It is vital that your doctor, knowing your health history, checks you for early signs of diabetes. Failing to recognise or test for prediabetes can be diabetes negligence.

Nerve damage in diabetes starts in the toes and fingers and spreads down into the hands and feet. Your high blood sugar level can do lasting damage to nerves if left untreated.

Heart disease and other cardiac-associated problems, such as high blood pressure and the risk of stroke, are often seen in people with diabetes. Poor diabetes care and not diagnosing the condition at an early age can increase the risk and effects of long-term damage.

Exhaustion problems such as feeling constantly tired, falling asleep during the day and being unable to exercise regularly is a common effects of both types of diabetes.

If left untreated or undiagnosed, diabetes will make your exhaustion worse and all other related problems.

Kidney complications are a direct result of diabetes. In some patients, a kidney transplant or regular dialysis are the only solutions to the effects of diabetes negligence.

General damages are when you sue for the pain, suffering and the loss of amenity, PSLA, you have experienced due to negligence.

Special damages include loss of earnings, future care costs, and out-of-pocket expenses.

Be sure to keep payslips, receipts and proof of any losses you experience as a result of the medical negligence.

You deserve compensation to cover all losses, including loss of life, medical costs and any long-term care needs.

When you or a loved one suffers from the effects of diabetes negligence, you make a claim for compensation.

Your No Win No Fee solicitor will guide you through the steps in making a diabetes negligence claim.

Seek medical advice on the injuries you have suffered or are suffering with immediately you realise you experienced diabetes negligence.

Contact a specialist medical negligence solicitor who operates on a No Win No Fee basis and tell them what went wrong. The right solicitor will look at your case, see where the problem lies, and advise if you suffered diabetes negligence.

The Medical Negligence Team also have a 100% Compensation Guarantee scheme, where you get all the money awarded in a negligence claim.

You are the one who suffered medical negligence, and you should get all the money due for the suffering.

Your medical negligence solicitor obtains your medical records with your permission. By reading your records, they will confirm if they think you have a valid diabetes negligence case.

The medical negligence team will know from reading your medical records it the case will result in diabetes negligence compensation being paid.

Getting a response from the negligent party’s insurer will move your compensation claim closer to a conclusion.

The insurer will either admit the medical negligence or say they intend to defend the case. Deciding to defend the case is known as ‘deny liability’ in legal terms.

If they admit liability, your diabetes negligence claim can be valued.

The two parties will meet to decide on your diabetes negligence compensation payment.

Your solicitor will negotiate with the negligent party and use their experience to get the compensation you deserve.

Issuing court proceedings is the next step if they deny liability in your diabetes negligence case. Going to court happens, too, when they are not prepared to pay a fair amount for the injuries you have suffered.

Your medical negligence solicitor issues the court proceedings.

Remember that less than 1% of medical negligence cases end up in court, and very few of those cases ever make it to the courtroom.

You have three years to make a claim for diabetes negligence. All medical negligence claims are subject to limitation periods.

For example, in England and Wales, medical negligence claims must generally be brought, court proceedings issued within three years of the injury, or three years of knowledge of the facts giving rise to the claim.

If someone has passed away, it is the date of death if the limitation period has not expired at the date of death.

Children not under a disability typically have until they reach 21 to start a diabetes negligence claim or court proceedings.

Persons under a disability, who lack capacity, are not subject to any limitation period.

Yes, you can make a medical negligence claim against the NHS. Suing the NHS for negligence is not unusual. People sue the NHS for compensation for medical negligence and receive the money they deserve for the negligent treatment.

Each year there are between 8,000 and 10,000 successful medical negligence claims against the NHS. Suing the NHS for medical negligence can make some people feel uncomfortable.

Amounts in compensation claims awarded against the NHS range from £1000 to over £10 million. The amount you receive covers minor injuries such as scarring to serious life-threatening negligence, which leaves you with long-term care needs.

We trust in and use the NHS daily and do not expect negligence. It happens, though, and the NHS has a dedicated team to handle medical negligence compensation claims, called NHS resolution.

NHS Resolution has a responsibility to treat patients who seek compensation fairly. Patients pay for the NHS through their taxes, and for that they deserve respect and the best medical treatment.