Who should be the next leader of the Tory party?

halfmist said:
A sensible question deserves a sensible answer.
I used to live next door to a couple of doctors , one who retrained as a medical barrister and earns over 7x what he earned as a GP. And he literally has work coming out of his ears.
It’s the compensation culture, no win no fee Society we now live in.
As the legal profession see it, the NHS is a a huge cash Cow that’s just waiting to be milked.
A lot of claims are just settled because the NHS hasn’t got the resources to fight them and bearing in mind the legal costs have to be paid they just give in too quickly.
Perhaps a minimum claim of £10,000 would stop some of the spurious claims that are made.
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The NHS does have the resources to fight them, they have their own legal departments that deal only with medical negligence. I have met some of their recruiters.

The problem isn't the value of the claims it is the value of the legal costs, which are currently unlimited, despite the fact that specific injuries have tariffs that limit how much that can be claimed.

The civil courts encourage the parties to settle in pretty much all times of cases, it isn't unique to medical negligence that settlement is preferred when it avoids clogging up the courts and running up huge costs.

Half of the costs relate to brain injuries at birth, the children who have suffered from these injuries may live well into adulthood and need 24hr nursing and support care.

Only way to reduce those costs is to reduce the frequency of preventable cockups in the maternity department.

  • the government is investing £9.4 million to pilot interventions aimed at reducing brain injuries during birth, which account for around half the costs of clinical negligence, although these claims would not be impacted by the proposals being announced today

www.gov.uk

New cap on legal costs to save NHS £500 million

The government is launching a consultation to tackle disproportionate legal fees for lower value clinical negligence claims.
www.gov.uk www.gov.uk
 
Badenoch to Tugendhat: "You haven't been on the front line"
Aside from allowing Tugendhat to retort about the military, that seems an overstatement of her own ministerial posts, and came over as a bit of a sneer.
 
Why does Mordaunt think that Brexit is sunk if they don't win the next election?

First person to mention the next election rather than the current situation?
 
That's an excellent question from Sunak - which does Truss regret being most, a Remainer or a LibDem?
Nice, not directed at current policy, and inevitably utterly utterly ignored in the answer.
 
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