Medical Negligence Claims - Slater & Gordon
Medical Negligence Claims - Slater & Gordon
Medical Negligence Claims - Slater & Gordon
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What is NOT a medical negligence claim?<br />
Complaints about service provision<br />
You may be dissatisfied with a number of aspects of your medical<br />
treatment and care including the cost, the attitude or manner of a<br />
health service provider or the way in which the health service was<br />
delivered. However, those complaints will not give rise to a claim in<br />
medical negligence. While these things may be frustrating, infuriating<br />
and distressing, unless they have actually caused you an injury and you<br />
have suffered some compensable loss, they are not the basis of<br />
a medical negligence claim.<br />
That does not mean that disrespectful or poor quality treatment is<br />
acceptable or that you should not complain about it.<br />
Complaints can be made to a Commissioner or agency, and<br />
<strong>Slater</strong> & <strong>Gordon</strong> will provide you with details of the complaints<br />
process in your area.<br />
ACT (02) 6205 2222<br />
Health complaints<br />
www.healthcomplaints.act.gov.au<br />
NSW (02) 9219 7444 www.hccc.nsw.gov.au<br />
NT (08) 8999 1969 www.nt.gov.au/omb_hcscc/hcscc<br />
QLD (07) 3234 0272 www.hqcc.qld.gov.au/index.htm<br />
SA (08) 8226 8666 www.hcscc.sa.gov.au<br />
TAS 1300 766 725 www.healthcomplaints.tas.gov.au<br />
VIC (03) 8601 5222 www.health.vic.gov.au/hsc/<br />
WA (08) 9323 0600 www.healthreview.wa.gov.au<br />
10 <strong>Medical</strong> <strong>Negligence</strong> <strong>Claims</strong> Third Edition • 2007
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