If you visited an A & E department, a GP surgery or a consultant and mistakes were made in diagnosing your fracture or broken bone(s), you could be entitled to make a compensation claim.
The mistakes could include:
- Not examining your injury correctly and requesting an X-ray
- Not reviewing the results of your X-ray correctly, and missing your fracture or a specific fracture altogether
- Not requesting further diagnostic scans and specialist x-rays when assessing whether you have a fracture which is not easily picked up by regular x-rays, eg. a Scaphoid fracture.
- Failing to refer you to a hospital for further tests.
