A claim for medical negligence damages can only succeed if we can establish (with the benefit of supportive medical expert opinion) that the conduct of the health care provider would not have been approved of by any responsible body of opinion in that discipline at that time.
It is, therefore, a defence for the health care provider to show that they acted in accordance with a practice rightly accepted as proper by a responsible body of medical people skilled in that particular field and this defence will succeed even if something went wrong with your treatment.
This, therefore, means that if the medical professional who treated can show that they complied with accepted medical practice, the claim will fail. We, therefore, need to prove that no responsible health care provider would have treated you as this one did.
Because medical negligence cases involve both medical and legal issues, we will need to get a report on the medical issues from a medical expert skilled in the particular kind of treatment which you received.
Having established that you were the victim of medical negligence if your claim is to result in an award of compensation, we will need to prove that it is more likely than not that it was this negligence which caused the harm or loss which you went on to suffer.