Coronavirus and clinical negligence (6 June 2020)

Summary

This commentary from Nigel Poole, was published in the Journal of Patient Safety and Risk Management. Nigel discusses how the coronavirus pandemic will affect clinical negligence litigation in England and Wales. Subsections include:

• context is all
• the pandemic is not a license to act negligently
• expert evidence
• delay
• backlog in litigation
• a reduction in the number of new claims.