Balancing the books or balancing the scales: what should drive reforms? (28 October 2021)

Summary

In this blog for the British Journal of Nursing, John Tingle, Lecturer in Law at Birmingham Law School, considers the two opposing viewpoints on the need for change in the clinical negligence litigation system. He concludes that reducing the costs of litigation with require more than refining how the system of compensation works. He states that the way care is delivered in the NHS needs to be examined at a more fundamental level.