The impact of the NHS Redress Bill on clinical negligence litigation

摘要

With 800,000 on the payroll in England1 and annual hospitalnadmissions of 8.5 million,2 it is hardly surprising that thenNHS is subject to a margin of error and failure. In 2003,nthe Department of Health (DoH) published the documentnMaking Amends3 which addressed the problem of injury duento clinical malpractice and accepted that patients who havenbeen harmed should be appropriately compensated