‘Doctors must be immune from coronavirus negligence claims’

Doctors and others involved in treating patients during the Covid-19 pandemic should be able to do so without the risk of being sued for negligence.

That is the overwhelming verdict of the public in a survey commissioned by the Medical Defence Union (MDU). Seventy per cent of 2,108 UK adults expressed this view, and only 7% of respondents disagreed.

The MDU is calling for the Government to act to stop the NHS being overwhelmed by an avalanche of negligence claims over the next few years.  

It fears the health service could be overwhelmed in just a few years by the cost of negligence claims that it expects without Govern­ment intervention.