questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a system of fixed recoverable costs in clinical negligence claims.
answerText: The rising costs of clinical negligence claims against the National Health Service in England are of great concern to the Government. Costs have more than quadrupled in the last 17 years and are forecast to continue rising, putting further pressure on NHS...
heading: Medical Treatments: Negligence