Child Injury and Paediatric Negligence

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Supporting you through a child injury and paediatric negligence claim

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We trust doctors and nurses to take good care of our children, but serious mistakes can happen. When they do, this can be life-changing for children and their families. Making a medical negligence claim can help you understand what went wrong and provide financial support to help you cope with changes to your child’s needs.

Helping you and others

Our solicitors have wide experience in child injury claims, and will support you and your family throughout. We campaign to make sure the cases we handle can lead to improved healthcare practice and help prevent other families going through the same experiences.

Financial security into the future

We’ll tell you if your child has a case for compensation and help you get the best possible settlement for them. Money from claims can help provide for ongoing treatment and care, specialist equipment and other needs now and into the future.

We could not fault the service provided by the whole team at Tees. Responsive, supportive and extremely professional throughout and the success in the case and the justice achieved was what we wanted.

Examples of child injury and paediatric negligence claims

Examples of child injury negligence include:

  • birth injuries, including serious birth injuries such as Erb’s palsy and cerebral palsy
  • delayed diagnosis of childhood conditions, such as congenital hip dysplasia, retinopathy of prematurity, meningitis, septicaemia, or tuberculosis 
  • delayed diagnosis of cancer in children, such as leukaemia, neuroblastoma, or brain/spinal cord tumours
  • delayed treatment provided to children 
  • mistakes in your child’s prescription, such as prescribing the wrong medicine or dose
  • failure to identify or properly treat fractures
  • failure to refer your child for further investigation or treatment.

How a compensation claim can help

We understand how an injury to a child can affect their future, and the future of the family as a whole. We will tell you if your child has a case for compensation and we’ll help you get the best possible settlement for them. Compensation gives your child financial security for the future and can cover a wide range of costs including:

  • ongoing care, such as home visits by a nurse or professional carer
  • speialist equipment your child might need
  • housing needs, including adaptations
  • medical treatment and therapies. 

Nothing can make up for your child’s suffering, but compensation can help make life easier. 

We’re here to help

If you’d like to meet one of our medical negligence experts for a confidential, no obligation chat, please get in touch. We have offices across Cambridgeshire, Essex and Hertfordshire, but we can help you wherever you are in England and Wales

Tees is a top-ranked Legal 500 firm with a nationally recognised medical negligence team. We have a long track record of successful child injury and paediatric negligence claims against trusts throughout England and Wales and take on complex cases that other firms won’t pursue.

We’ll give you an honest assessment of whether your claim is viable. We work on a no win, no fee basis so if your claim is unsuccessful you won’t have to pay anything.

We strongly believe in using our work to make changes in healthcare practice that could prevent harm to others in the future. Your claim could help us do that.

Our legal services are regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority.

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