Some 14% of the entire NHS budget goes on complaints relating to injury compensation. Of that, a third or £4 billion per year goes to lawyers. That diversion of cash away from the front line to lawyers makes it much harder to get the staffing levels that Francis envisaged. Will the Secretary of State address that as part of the wider issue?
Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust
Proceeding contribution from
David Mowat
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 19 November 2013.
It occurred during Ministerial statement on Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust.
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