If you or a family member have suffered a serious personal injury, or received poor care that has caused you harm (negligence), you may have made a legal claim which resulted in an award of damages.
No amount of money could ever put someone back in the position they would have been in had such an event had not occurred. That said, an award of damages may include provision for a care need which was not previously present, it may provide for loss of earnings or any of a range of other needs which otherwise would not have existed before. The amount of money can be substantial (sometimes running into millions of pounds), but may need to cover a range of needs for a long time – and this requires careful management, with input from a range of experts.