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We’re all aware of the fact you may have a medical negligence claim if you have suffered injury or allergy relating to a medical procedure, but were you aware that there are also cases where pharmaceutical errors have lead to a clinical negligence claim?

Like in the occurrence of a medical error, an error in the medication prescribed by a pharmacist can have serious consequences, such as illness, injury or even death.

Pharmaceutical errors occur when there is an error in the medication you are given by a pharmacist. The error could be with the actual medication or an error in the prescribed dose, but either way there can be very negative effects. There are also cases of patients being given a different medicine or dosage from the pharmacist in comparison to what was prescribed by your doctor.

A common situation in pharmaceutical errors is when medicines are prescribed without a doctor’s prescription, such as allergy creams, cold tablets or drops. One case in Chester related to such an event. A woman who was experiencing some discomfort and dryness in the eye went to the pharmacist to get some drops and was given ear drops instead of eye drops. The packages of both were so similar that it was recommended that they be kept far apart in the pharmacy. The patient administered the ear drops to the eye assuming they were the eye drops she had requested and later suffered an allergic reaction.

When a medicine is first given to you, you might not be aware that it is wrong, and so trusting the professional’s judgement, may take the wrong medicine or wrong dose of a medicine. Fortunately, someone else’s mistake does not always result in you illness, but if you have suffered injury relating to a pharmaceutical error then you may be able to claim for medical negligence.

Learn more about compensation services, by visiting this no win no fee solicitor site, to see how the claims process works.