Reform clinical negligence or NHS suffers, urges the MDU
The Government is being urged by a leading doctors’ defence body to press ahead with long-promised reforms aimed at controlling the costs of clinical negligence cases. In written evidence to the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee into NHS financial sustainability, the Medical Defence Union (MDU) explains that the Government must introduce legal reforms to […]...
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