MPs urge radical reforms to negligence compensation system that costs NHS billions each year The Government should remove the need to prove clinical negligence from NHS compensation claims when things go wrong in a radical overhaul of a system which last year paid out £2.17 billion, say MPs.
In a wide-ranging Report on NHS litigation reform, the Health and Social Care Committee finds the current system for compensating injured patients in England ‘not fit for purpose’ and urges a radically different system to be adopted.
See also:
- Failing NHS negligence system must change, say MPs BBC News
- £2billion-a-year NHS compensation payout scheme needs radical overhaul and to move away from costly 'culture of blame', MPs say The Daily Mail
- MPs call for radical overhaul of NHS compensation system The Independent
- NHS compensation scheme 'not fit for purpose' and reform is long overdue, new study shows Sky News
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