for Trusts claims, showing birth errors as proportion of total, 1 April 1995 to 31 March 20111 (excludes below excess claims handled by trusts before 1 April 2002) The annual NHS bill for damages and legal costs in clinical negligence claims in England breached 1bn for the first time in ...
the law in general.Annual NHS clinical negligence expenditure rose from [pounds sterling]1m in 1974-75 ([pounds sterling]6.33m at 2002 prices) to [pounds sterling]446m in 2001-02; the legal and administrative costs of settling claims exceed the money actually paid to the victim in the ...