Claims Club: Senior NHS member blames claimant solicitors for hike in negligence cases

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Heightened interest from claimant solicitors rather than a decline in standards is behind the significant rise in clinical negligence claims lodged against the National Health Service over the past three years.

That is the view of the NHS Litigation Authority technical claims director John Mead, who has dismissed suggestions that the Stafford Hospital scandal – in which neglect and abuse led to hundreds of

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