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Self-help guide
Medical negligence – what compensation can I claim?
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Self-help guide
Settling a clinical negligence claim
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Self-help guide
Court of Protection
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Self-help guide
Funding options in clinical negligence claims — Scotland only
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Self-help guide
Funding options in clinical negligence claims
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Self-help guide
Understanding legal costs for medical negligence claims
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Self-help guide
Understanding legal costs: the principles
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Self-help guide
How to approach a lawyer for the first time
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Self-help guide
Things to consider when choosing a solicitor
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Self-help guide
Welsh translation: Mynd i gyfraith hawlio iawndal yng Nghymru
About our self-help guides
Our self-help guides are designed to guide you through the options available to you in relation avoidable harm in healthcare. Written by experts, they explain procedures you might need to follow, your legal rights and options, and contain contact details for regulators, advice services and other organisations which might be able to help you. We also have templates available to make it easier for you to take action.
Our core guides are also available in large print versions on request. If you need a guide to be read aloud to you, you can use free accessible apps for Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge.
We’re always looking to expand our range of guides. If there is advice you would find useful which isn’t available on our site, please let us know.
About our briefings and reports
One of our key priorities is to ensure that the patient perspective is front and centre during any policy debates affecting patient safety and justice. We are uniquely positioned, given the expertise in our team and our long history of advocacy work in this space, to provide informed and patient-centred contributions to these conversations.
Some of the key ways we do this are through briefings, in-depth reports and responses to formal consultations. Where available, you can download a document. Alternatively, to request a copy of the full document, send us an email.