Psychiatric Injury Claims & Compensation Lawyers

Examples of psychiatric injury claims that we can help you with include:

1. Psychiatric Misdiagnosis or Delayed Diagnosis:
   Psychiatric injury claims may arise if your mental health condition is misdiagnosed or if there’s a significant delay in reaching the correct diagnosis, resulting in additional injuries
2. Psychiatric Medication Errors:
   Incorrect prescription or administration of psychiatric medications resulting in severe psychiatric side effects and worsening of your symptoms.
3. Inadequate Inpatient Care:
   Inpatient psychiatric care where your treating facility fails to provide adequate supervision, treatment, or fails to prevent self-harm.
4. Suicide Risk Assessments:
   Mental health professionals have a duty to assess and manage suicide risk appropriately. Claims may arise if there is a failure in conducting adequate risk assessments, leading to self-harm or suicide.
5. Negligent Discharge Planning:
   Inadequate planning for your discharge from a psychiatric facility, including insufficient support and follow-up care, which results in relapses or further injury
6. Failure to Recognise Warning Signs:
   Mental health professionals may be liable for claims if they fail to recognize and address warning signs of deteriorating mental health in their patients, leading to preventable harm.

It is crucial to emphasise that the specifics of each clinical scenario can vary. Psychiatric injury claims are complex and require careful consideration of the unique circumstances surrounding each case.

Why choose Hodge Jones & Allen solicitors?

With over four decades’ experience, we have assisted many families in representing their interests at courts throughout the UK, as well supporting bereaved families at inquests following avoidable suicide of mental health patients.

Our solicitors are experts at guiding you and representing your interests during the internal investigation process and in relation to compensation claims. The earlier we are instructed on a case, the better we can assist you to secure justice for you or your loved one.

In some cases, the injured party may not have the requisite mental capacity to bring court proceedings themselves and we can advise on the appointment of a litigation friend.

Equally, at the conclusion of the care, if the injured party does not have the capacity to manage their finances then we can advise on the appointment of a deputy (a solicitor who manages the injured party’s finances under the supervision of the Court of Protection).

At Hodge, Jones & Allen, our solicitors handle these very sensitive claims in a sympathetic and effective manner.