Lexis®Library update: Health Minister Nadine Dorries has announced that the government is working to modernise the approach towards clinical negligence compensation within the NHS, including by looking to implement a no-fault compensation system
Speaking to the Health and Social Care Select Committee, Dorries said: ‘I can’t be drawn on the detail but we are looking at, in the round, across the NHS, not just in maternity, about how those issues of no blame, no-fault compensation, clinical negligence, how they are treated and how they are dealt with and how we look at them, and we administer them.'
The Committee Chair, Jeremy Hunt, referenced Sweden’s successful no-fault compensation system, which means families do not have to prove negligence before they are able to receive damages, instead having to prove avoidability and that something went wrong.
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Source: No-fault compensation for clinical negligence on ministers' agenda
