Report Highlights Concerns Of Hospital Negligence Claims Lawyers
Hospital negligence claims solicitors have expressed concerns at a damning new report about the level of compliance with safety alerts across the NHS. Figures obtained on behalf of the patients’ charity Action against Medical Accidents suggest that several health care trusts are still failing to comply with alerts from an NHS regulator aimed at improving patient safety. The concerns of patient charities and hospital negligence claims solicitors are that failure to comply could result in injury or even death to patients.
Worryingly, the information obtained for the report suggests that non-compliance with patient safety alerts is high across many hospitals and health trusts. In serious cases, the figures showed that some hospitals failed to comply with up to 23 of 57 alerts which were issued in a five year period.
It is particularly unfortunate, say hospital negligence claims lawyers and patient charity AvMA that this report follows a similar investigation in February with similarly damning results. By all accounts, compliance has not improved since the previous report.
One cannot overemphasise the seriousness of the problem. There will always be serious consequences to failing to comply with safety alerts. Every year many patients are injured or killed as they fall victim to negligent treatment. And of course, previously injured patients and their families are not impressed at the revelation that lessons are not being learnt from their ordeals.
With the possible increase of injured patients comes the potential for major rises in the numbers of hospital negligence claims being made against the NHS. Whilst even the NHS itself accepts the importance of compensating victims of negligent care so that they can return to as normal a life as possible, there are concerns that paying hospital negligence claims diverts funds away from the NHS. Of course, the only way the problem will be solved is to guarantee compliance and reduce the injuries to patients caused by negligence.
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