Healthcare privacy compensation claims

It is important to pursue healthcare privacy compensation claims to make sure that you can access some form of justice for what has happened to you when this kind of information has been misused or exposed.

For eligible clients, we are able to offer No Win, No Fee legal representation as part of our commitment to access to justice. The best place to start is to contact our team for free, no-obligation legal advice here now.

Pursuing healthcare privacy compensation claims

Pursuing healthcare privacy compensation claims can be incredibly important to make sure that the victim of an incident can access the justice they deserve. It goes without saying that medical data is some of the most private and sensitive that there can be about us, which is precisely why we want to have strict control over it. The GDPR recognises this because medical information can be classed as “special category” data, which affords it additional protection.

If your medical information has been involved in a breach, leak or hack, or some form of exposure or misuse event, we understand how this can make you feel. We recognise that you may be significantly distressed about the fact that you have lost control over your personal information, and now other people know about it. The GDPR recognises this distress as it can allow you to recover compensation for the distress that you have suffered from that has been caused by the loss of control of your personal information. This is the avenue in which you can use to claim compensation, and you do not have to have lost any money to be able to pursue a legal case.

We can represent eligible clients for healthcare privacy compensation claims on a No Win, No Fee basis as part of our commitment to access to justice. Working this way can offer protection in the event that the claim does not succeed, and you can speak to our team for free, no-obligation legal advice here now.

The importance of instructing expert privacy lawyers

It is important that you instruct expert privacy lawyers when you pursue a claim for data breach compensation, and this is especially the case for healthcare privacy compensation claims. Given that the distress can be significant, the amount that you could be entitled to recover could be substantial. We have been a leading firm of privacy compensation experts in England and Wales for many years, and we have been operating in this area of law for a lot longer than other firms out there. We know that some other firms have settled cheaply when clients could be entitled to recover much more, and you do not want this to happen if you want to make sure that you can access the full justice that you deserve.

Our average compensation settlement is at just over £6,000 in damages alone per claimant. However, medical data breach compensation claims – particularly when they are incredibly personal and sensitive – can be valued way above this. Some claims could be resolved in the £15,000 to £25,000 mark, depending on the nature of the impact on the victim.

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You can pursue the NHS for a data breach claim

It is possible to pursue the NHS for a data breach compensation case if your medical information has been misused or exposed in the public sector healthcare environment. Any organisation that stores and processes medical information has an important duty to protect it, and the NHS is one of the major organisations that has this duty in the UK.

Ultimately, pursuing a privacy claim for compensation is about recovering the damages you could be entitled to receive by law. It is often a simple process to be able to get started with a case of this nature, and you can speak to our team for more help here.

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