Compensation / negligence

[transam]

Claims currently out standing against the NHS are in excess of £ 80 billion

Legal bills lawyer costs are to date? 4 billion that has been paid out to the legal scheisters

80 billion half the NHS budget

 

[Vinty]

I don't agree with a private health service but maybe patients should have their own insurance to cover clinical negligence.

 

[Vinty]

Another point is that solicitors used to be banned from advertising on television.
Adverts by ambulance chasing lawyers encouraging people to make claims should once again be outlawed.

 

[JohnD]

I don't agree with a private health service but maybe patients should have their own insurance to cover clinical negligence.

We do. We pay taxes and National Insurance. That's where the money comes from to pay us compensation when a NHS surgeon lops the wrong leg off.

 

[Vinty]

We do. We pay taxes and National Insurance. That's where the money comes from to pay us compensation when a NHS surgeon lops the wrong leg off.

Maybe the surgeon should have his or her own clinical negligence insurance, they get well paid enough.

 

[transam]

Maybe the surgeon should have his or her own clinical negligence insurance, they get well paid enough.

those involved in child birth procedures face the biggest premiumn ?

afaik government has to under write any claims due to doctors not wanting to get involved , surgeon shortages

 

[transam]

factor in all the compensation paid out & pending

all the legal scheisters rip off fees

13,000 fruit cakes on the NHS waiting list for gender reasignment

no wonder its in a mess

 

[transam]

Then there are all the drunks on a Friday and saturday night clogging up A&E and causing havoc

than there are all the fruit cakes attempting suicide

the money spent on keeping the criminally insane in places like broadmoor

jeez us wept tis a wonder the rest of us actually get any attention at all

 

[mattylad]

Just think how much better the NHS could be if it din't have to pay out all these £billions???

It would likely be so better it didnt have to pay out billions in the first place.

Chicken/egg.

 

[ellal]

Maybe the surgeon should have his or her own clinical negligence insurance, they get well paid enough.

Apart from the fact that most doctors don't get paid as well as many people might think, up until April last year they did have to have negligence insurance...

However in an attempt to simplify the system the government took the liability back 'in house'...

It's an attempt to take away the uncertainty for cases since 1.04.19, but where that leaves historical claims is guess work.

Edit: Doctors undertaking private work or those wishing to continue to hold EU/EEA wide indemnity after Brexit are not included.

 

[SirGalahad]

Claims currently out standing against the NHS are in excess of £ 80 billion

Legal bills lawyer costs are to date? 4 billion that has been paid out to the legal scheisters

80 billion half the NHS budget

Where is this figure from?

 

[transam]

Where is this figure from?

NHS

obtained under the freedom of infomation act

the actual figure is in excess of 83 billion £

 

[transam]

80 billion how much is that for every man woman and child in the UK

 

[motorbiking]

I don't have the answers, but there needs to be a change in the wall of silence culture of the NHS when negligence is an issue. Organisations need to learn. I'm sure there are claims that could be avoided by openness. I'm also sure that there are plenty of people who deserve the payouts when they have been injured.

 

[SirGalahad]

https://www.theguardian.com/society...larm-after-120000-lawyer-bill-from-5000-claim

NHS sounds compensation alarm after £120,000 lawyer bill for £5,000 claim
This article is more than 4 years old
NHS Litigation Authority says a third of £1.1bn paid out last year went to lawyers and that government legal aid reforms have led to rising costs in some cases

The NHS LA also raised concerns about the coalition government’s overhaul of legal aid, saying it had “influenced the behaviour of some claimant lawyers” and led to rising legal costs in many cases.

The authority highlighted one case where an NHS trust agreed to pay out £5,000 for the failure to diagnose a patient’s tumour on the kidney. However, after the offer of £5,000 was accepted, the patient’s solicitors claimed costs of £121,700.

Further analysis of the bill revealed that the firm was claiming a rate of £400 an hour, although a significant amount of the work was carried out by unqualified staff. The firm then claimed a 100% success fee on top of this, raising the hourly rate to £800.