Medical negligence claims costing serious money for NHS

The Government have been forced to subsidise the body which deals with medical negligence claims against the NHS. This highlights just how big and expensive the issue of medical negligence claims has become. Did you know that :-

• The bail out funds needed will be £185million
• Medical negligence claims have tripled in the past 10 years
• Damages exposure, on a worst case scenario, where all current cases were lost at court, would amount to the huge amount of nearly £17 billion
• Yearly compensation payments have risen from £277 million in the year 2000-01 to an amount close to £1 billion in the last year
• Claims made are approaching 9,000 per year.
• There hahs been an increase in the most catastrophic types of injury claims, where medical advances mean that life expectancy is much better for the victims. These types of cases include brain damage to babies, where compensation can be as high as £6 million for lifetime care.