{"id":75209,"date":"2025-05-14T16:06:52","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T16:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=75209"},"modified":"2025-05-14T16:06:52","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T16:06:52","slug":"nhs-medical-negligence-liabilities-hit-58-2bn-amid-calls-to-improve-patient-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/05\/14\/nhs-medical-negligence-liabilities-hit-58-2bn-amid-calls-to-improve-patient-safety\/","title":{"rendered":"NHS medical negligence liabilities hit \u00a358.2bn amid calls to improve patient safety"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1EJhwj.img?w=534&amp;h=427&amp;m=6\" alt=\"The report called for urgent steps to reduce \u2018tragic incidences of patient harm\u2019 in the NHS and to end a situation where lawyers take 19% of compensation. Photograph: Peter Byrne\/PA\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The NHS\u2019s total liabilities for medical negligence have hit an \u201castounding\u201d \u00a358.2bn amid ministers\u2019 failure to improve patient safety, an influential group of MPs have warned. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/other\/nhs-medical-negligence-liabilities-hit-58-2bn-amid-calls-to-improve-patient-safety\/ar-AA1EJxC0?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=088831fbae4e4249825bb9209e7cc935&amp;ei=32\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>The NHS\u2019s total liabilities for medical negligence have hit an \u201castounding\u201d \u00a358.2bn amid ministers\u2019 failure to improve patient safety, an influential group&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29447,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-75209","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/nhs.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75210,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75209\/revisions\/75210"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}