Hospital Infection & GP Negligence Claims
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For infections developed in the community GPs are usually the first doctors you will see.
It is the GPs job to recognise the severity of the infection, in appropriate cases treat and refer urgently to hospital. Many cases of GP negligence concern a failure to recognise the seriousness of the patient's symptoms and a failure to refer the patient to hospital immediately.
Once in hospital the seriousness of the condition needs to be recognised, tests completed, a diagnosis made and treatment started. Sometimes doctors can spend too long trying to identify the cause of the illness losing crucial time during which treatment would avoid long term disability or death from infection.
Infection can not always be prevented however hospitals are under a duty to take meticulous care of hygiene to reduce the risk of infection and to spot and treat developing infection.
We need to prove either failings in hospital systems or individual instances of negligent care to prove the infection should have been avoided, or identified and treated earlier. There may have been failings in screening patients before operation, in administering pre operative prophylactic antibiotics, in hygiene care, in the management of wound care and care of intravenous access points, there may have been a delay in identifying and properly treating infection, or the hospital may have failed to prevent an outbreak of infection.
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