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We need a heart disease action plan to end heartbreak for good Partner content
We need a heart disease action plan to end heartbreak for good
By British Heart Foundation
Health
“The Forgotten Majority”: Leading Charities Call for Action to Tackle Long-Term Conditions Partner content
“The Forgotten Majority”: Leading Charities Call for Action to Tackle Long-Term Conditions
By AbbVie
Health
The next UK government must ensure health, safety and wellbeing standards are upheld Partner content
The next UK government must ensure health, safety and wellbeing standards are upheld
By British Safety Council
Health
Parliament Unwrapped: What did the 2019-2024 Parliament mean for workers’ health, safety, and wellbeing? Partner content
Parliament Unwrapped: What did the 2019-2024 Parliament mean for workers’ health, safety, and wellbeing?
By British Safety Council
Health
Five-point manifesto to support people and families living with obesity Partner content
Five-point manifesto to support people and families living with obesity
By Slimming World
Health
Press releases
BANT welcomes the Labour Government and urges the new Health Secretary to deliver on his pledge for prevention focused healthcare
By British Association for Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine (BANT)
Employers and staff optimistic about impact of new technologies, despite uncertainty about safety – new British Safety Council survey
By British Safety Council
Act against the drivers of obesity and rid Britain of its label as ‘the fat man of Europe!’
By British Association for Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine (BANT)

VIDEO: How to make compensation for injured patients fair

Medical Defence Union

1 min read Partner content

Dr Christine Tomkins, chief executive of the MDU discusses the campaign to make compensation for injured patients fair.

Money that could be used to benefit patients is instead haemorrhaging out of the NHS in compensation and legal fees for clinical negligence claims. In the year ending 31 March 2014, over £1bn was paid out in total on behalf of all English hospitals. Dr Christine Tomkins, MDU chief executive, explains we are facing a nationwide problem with increasing costs of clinical negligence claims and suggests that reform of the way compensation awards are calculated could be the answer.