Thursday 20 September 2018

NHS pays £100,000 a day to compensate people scarred for life in hospital errors

NHS pays £100,000 a day to compensate people scarred for life in hospital errors More than three people a week are suing the NHS after being left permanently disfigured by treatment that went wrong.

Patients have lost limbs, gone blind or been scarred for life by the NHS and compensation claims are costing the health service more than £100,000 a day.

Since 2010 the NHS has paid compensation to 810 people who suffered a needless amputation of a limb. The Daily Mail

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