National Health Service

The annual eye-watering legal bill faced by the NHS never fails to shock

The Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC) has presented the ‘People at the Heart of Care: adult social care reform’ white paper to Parliament on 1 December 2021, setting out its ten-year vision for the adult social care sector

Obstetric negligence: Lorin Lakasing reports on the cost of over-promising & under-delivering

The NHS pays out about £2.4bn in compensation each year, about one third of which is for legal fees, yet both clinical staff and families are left dissatisfied with the results of the clinical negligence system. A doctor shares her opinion on flaws in the system, in this week’s NLJ

The clinical negligence system is causing rising costs for the NHS while ‘perpetuating a culture of blame’, according to a report, ‘The safety of maternity services in England’

Pandemic-related delays in medical treatment and operations have led to a spike in enquiries about clinical negligence, according to law firm Wright Hassall

David Locke & Claire Christopholus question if there is a duty of care to relatives of patients with genetic conditions

Why the diagnosis and treatment of non‑COVID patients with potentially life threatening conditions must be accelerated