Savings? What savings?

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 05 Jul 2011 English Publisher:BMJJournal:BMJ, volume 343, pages d4035-d4035 (issn: 0959-8138, eissn: 1468-5833,

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Authors: Russell, Levy;

doi: 10.1136/bmj.d4035

pmid: 21729982

Savings? What savings?

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You don’t have to be Ben Goldacre to realise that there is something fishy about the values quoted by Dyer for NHS payments of damages and legal costs in clinical negligence cases.1 The justice secretary, Kenneth Clarke, used these values when he told listeners of BBC Radio 4’s Today programme on 29 March 2011: “I mean in 2008-9 the NHS did pay …

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Lawyers, Cost Savings, Health Care Reform, Compensation and Redress, Malpractice, State Medicine, United Kingdom

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