A startling 50 out of the 200 British law firms that specialise in clinical negligence cases have been told to improve their standards and performance. The findings are that a quarter of those investigated were found to have performance that was below standard.
A large part of the performance increase focuses on getting firms to correctly vet cases before they decide to take it on.
A large amount of public money is spent on clinical medical negligence compensation payments. This problem has been on the increase for years now. A recent investigation found that clinical negligence compensation payments are set to rise to nearly £4.4 billion in the next year. That money would buy a lot of hospital equipment and could be better used to save lives.
A large part of the compensation payments are paid to maternity related cases. Maternity is obviously a delicate area and there have been arguments that it may not all go as smoothly as patients expect. There is always an element of risk when entering hospital, especially when childbirth is concerned. More needs to be done to make sure that the area of childbirth runs smoother. This means that more should be spent on training of junior midwives.
Medical negligence is a problem that isn’t going to go away anytime soon. With more money spent on better training and equipment hopefully the problem can be reduced.
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