Medical providers owe you a ‘duty of care’ to exercise skill, judgement and reasonable care when examining, diagnosing, treating and advising you. If they breach that duty, you may be able to make a medical negligence compensation claim and they may be liable for any harm caused.

Common negligent treatment that you may be able to claim medical negligence compensation for include:

• making an existing condition worse
• misdiagnosis or failure to diagnose a condition
• failure to provide the appropriate treatment or referral
• a delay in diagnosis or providing the appropriate treatment or referral
• failure to perform surgery or provide post-operative care with reasonable care and skill
• incorrectly reporting on test results.