Increasingly in Ireland, Coroners Courts are returning verdicts of medical accident in cases where patient deaths are shown to have been caused by or substantially contributed to by the poor quality of care received from healthcare professionals.
Whether in the context of medical care at home, in the community, in a nursing home or in hospital, mistakes occur in medical treatment and sometimes these errors have fatal consequences.
Deaths resulting from medical negligence can be very difficult to prove. Nevertheless, where you have a suspicion about the quality of the medical care that a loved one has received and you suspect the death may have been caused or contributed to by that poor care, you should seek expert legal advice immediately.
