

You have the right to trust your doctor to look after you properly. If your health care professional, hospital, or other facility breaches what’s known as their duty of care, then you may be able to make a claim for compensation.
Laws relating to medical negligence vary between states and territories, but generally, Australian law allows a person to claim compensation if they have suffered physical, psychological, or financial harm as a result of negligent medical treatment.
Medical negligence, or malpractice, happens when treatment from a health service provider such as a hospital, doctor, dentist, pharmacist, or allied health professional falls below an acceptable standard. Medicine is a complicated practice and health service providers are not expected to be perfect; sometimes medical treatment is unsuccessful and injuries can occur, but that doesn’t mean there’s been any negligence.
Negligent treatment may involve the following:
- Failure to or delay in diagnosing a condition,
- Failure to or delay in providing the appropriate treatment or referral for the condition,
- Failure to perform surgery with reasonable care and skill,
- Financial investment counselling,
- Failure to report correctly on test results,
- Failure to provide post-operative care with reasonable care and skill, or
- Making an existing medical condition worse.
We can secure the most favourable outcome for you in cases involving:
- Surgery, Emergency medicine, Informed consent and Drug interactions.
- Obstetrics, Paediatrics and Gynaecology.
- Misdiagnosis and Delayed Diagnosis of Cancer; and
- Medical Malpractice.