Should Nhs Hospitals Collude With Ambulance-Chasing Lawyers?

[youngmafbog]

Now there needs to be some redress for negligence but with Ambulance-chasing lawyers costing the service £440 million a year with some hospitals even renting the pond life office space is enough enough?

[Peter Pedant]

// and the Consultants who can earn up to in excess of £200,000 in medical reports on top of their NHS and private practices salaries. //

wiv the orthopods' reports commonly costing more than the amount claimed by the damaged party
[ report costing £5000 when the amount claimed is £500 just in case s/o cant understand plain English on AB today]

but surely this is thread drift again ( off the point or completely off the point)

the obvious defect in the sustem for compensating for medical negligence is nothing to do with renting office space in hospitals

[mikey4444]

Sqad....I don't have total recall of the Today segment, but one lady was horrified to come upon her elderly Mother, with a solicitor sitting by the bedside, asking here to sign papers.

I don't have a problem, in principle, with a firm of Solicitors working within Hospital premises.

[ToraToraTora]

sqad, we all make mistakes, I know you hate the NHS but that does not mean they should have to defend against every low life scum lawyer who forces them to have to spend public money to defend cases from greedy patients who in all probability do not have a real case only some sort of technical "fault" for some technical "harm" and that legal action would not even have been considered had they not been put up to it by the afore mentioned bl00d sucking scum lawyer.

[ToraToraTora]

if someone has to be told they have some sort of grievance then it's most likely to be something that they in all probability would not have had a due about themselves. the last thing public institution needs is to to have to pay out compo and leech fees.

[anneasquith]

I can assure you ttt no lawyer will try to sue the NHS unless a settlement is likely, so a bit more than just a technical issue,

[jlcm]

The NHS has done for years[either them or there employees]I broke my leg 11 years ago and went and had it set in a cast, by the time I got home one of the compensation vultures was ringing me to see who I wanted to claim compensation off when I told them myself [it was my fault being extremely over weight and climbing walls it just don't work well]the conversation came to a very quick conclusion

[youngmafbog]

//I can assure you ttt no lawyer will try to sue the NHS unless a settlement is likely//

The problem is, as with insurance companies, the lawyers know the cut-off point for which the compo will be paid as going to court is too expensive. I do know of an insurance company that found this with a particular set of Liverpudlian pond life, when they started challenging each and every case no matter what the value the cases plummeted.