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Urology compensation claims

Urology is a complex area of medicine and complications as a result of clinical negligence in this area can cause life-changing injuries. Contact one of our specialist lawyers for a free initial consultation to find out if we can investigate your case with the financial security of a no win no fee agreement.

Overview
When can you claim compensation for clinical negligence during urology treatment?

We expect to be safe in the hands of medical practitioners. Urological medical negligence can have devastating effects on our health and psychological wellbeing. When a medical practitioner causes injury during a urological procedure, it is often possible to claim compensation.

The most common types of urological claims arise from complications associated with surgery, for example:
- Bowel damage following a TVT procedure to treat incontinence
- Ureter or bladder damage during surgery
- Negligent or unnecessary nephrectomy (kidney removal)
- Negligently performed colposuspension
- Negligent vasectomy
- Negligent prostatectomy
- Circumcision complications.
How we can help you with your urology compensation claim:
- The size of our clinical negligence team and the breadth of our knowledge means we are likely to have already succeeded in recovering compensation for a urology-related clinical negligence claim that is similar to yours
- Often negligent urology treatment can leave someone with problems that are embarrassing to discuss. We have several laweyrs (both male and female) on our team who are used to dealing with such matters and do so in a sensitive and practical way
- Our overriding aim is to protect your interests and achieve the most advantageous outcome for the long term. We make sure your case is fully investigated and guide you carefully through each step of the claim process
- In every compensation claim, our focus is on your individual requirements. We act with understanding of the stresses that bringing a medical negligence claim can involve
- We can help you find out why the system failed you and ensure it is fully investigated to prevent it happening to somebody else
- Our lawyers are specialist in medical negligence cases and our clinical negligence team is one of the most established, teams in the country
- We are highly ranked by two of the most prestigious, independent guides to the legal profession 'Chambers and Partners' and 'The Legal 500'.
Free initial consultation

Contact of team of specialist lawyers for a free, no obligation, consultation and we will listen to the circumstances of your medical treatment, and give you clear advice on the chances of you receiving compensation in a clinical negligence claim. If we think you have a claim, we can investigate your case using the financial security of a no win no fee agreement.

Call us on 01892 510000 or fill in our short enquiry form and we will assess your urology compensation claim.
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Negligent prostatectomy and Argus sling surgeries

Our client, Mr K, suffered from incontinence, infections, severe pain and psychiatric harm after a number of failures by his urology consultant including the performance of a procedure which had been unauthorised and not licenced by the PCT.

Undiagnosed testicular torsion leads to testicle removal

James Cahan, specialist clinical negligence lawyer based at Thomson Snell & Passmore’s Tunbridge Wells and Dartford (Thames Gateway) offices, has secured £13,750 for a school boy who underwent an urgent orchiectomy (removal of testicle) and subsequent prosthesis insertion due to undiagnosed testicular torsion following his attendance at A&E, Eastbourne District General Hospital 3 weeks previously.

Urinary incontinence following bowel cancer surgery

James Cahan, specialist clinical negligence lawyer based at Thomson Snell & Passmore’s Tunbridge Wells and Dartford (Thames Gateway) offices, has secured £130,000 for patient who developed a perineal fistula and subsequent urinary incontinence after his urethra was damaged during bowel cancer surgery.

Death after meningitis contracted during brain surgery

James Cahan, specialist clinical negligence lawyer based at Thomson Snell & Passmore’s Tunbridge Wells and Dartford (Thames Gateway) Offices, has secured over £70,000 for the widow of a man who died after he contracted meningitis following surgery to remove a brain tumour.

Permanent deterioration after negligent discharge

Oliver Chapman, specialist clinical negligence lawyer, based at Thomson Snell & Passmore’s Tunbridge Wells and Dartford (Thames Gateway) offices has secured compensation for the estate of an elderly patient who suffered a permanent deterioration in health after she was discharged from hospital prematurely.

£67,500 award after failure to diagnose kidney cancer

Jonathan Herbert, specialist clinical negligence lawyer based at Thomson Snell & Passmore’s Tunbridge Wells and Dartford (Thames Gateway) Offices, has secured £67,500 for a patient who required extensive open surgery after her kidney cancer remained undiagnosed for 13 months.

Incontinence following delayed diagnosis of a fistula

Oliver Chapman, specialist clinical negligence lawyer based at Thomson Snell & Passmore’s Tunbridge Wells office, has secured £12,000 for a claimant who suffered a period of incontinence when a hospital failed to identify a fistula.

Medical negligence & kidney damage, renal damage and a kidney transplant

Peter Cooper won an undisclosed seven figure sum for permanent damage to his kidneys, which eventually led to a transplant.

Patient receives compensation for unnecessary haemorrhoidectomy surgery

This case study demonstrates the expertise of our Clinical Negligence team who recently acted for a patient who underwent haemorrhoidectomy surgery in 2008. Following surgery she went into urinary retention and has since suffered such extreme constipation that she will require laxatives for life and possibly a colostomy in the future.

Patient suffers progression of kidney cancer when hospital loses scan

This case study demonstrates the expertise of our Clinical Negligence team who obtained £60,000 compensation in a claim where the results of a CT scan remained undiscovered for 12 months by which time the tumour had increased in size having an adverse effect on her prognosis, which was then very poor.

Undiagnosed torsion of the testicle

This case study demonstrates the expertise of our Clinical Negligence team who recently acted for a man suffering from a torsion of the testicle. He was misdiagnosed during three separate hospital attendances despite the GP repeatedly diagnosing the condition correctly.

Patient disbelieved

This case study demonstrates the expertise of our Clinical Negligence team who recently recovered £9,000 for a patient who received abusive comments from hospital staff who believed that she was fabricating her symptoms.
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Failure to monitor kidneys leads to end stage kidney disease

Our client, Mrs A, was referred to North Middlesex University Hospital for investigations into her kidney function. She was discharged, but the nephrologist did not advise her GP to continue to monitor her. Eight years later end stage kidney disease was diagnosed. Damages of £32,000 were recovered for the pain and suffering and financial losses sustained as a result of the delay in diagnosis.

Should I settle my medical negligence compensation claim directly with NHS Resolution?

Often when patients are unhappy with the treatment they have received from an NHS hospital they will make a formal complaint to the Trust. Formal complaints are a useful way of getting essential information about the treatment a patient has received and may sometimes result in that Trust apologising to the aggrieved patient.
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