NHS Spends 'Disappointing' £3.6billion a Year on Clinical Negligence

NHS spends 'disappointing' £3.6billion a year on clinical negligence

The total bill since 2006-7 is £60billion

NHS fails to take ‘meaningful steps’ to tackle rising negligence costs

The government and NHS England have been sharply criticised by MPs for their failure to take "any meaningful steps" to slash the rising costs of clinical negligence in England, despite two decades of warnings.

NHS England pays out NINE times as much as NHS Scotland, per head, for clinical negligence

In the Guardian today: NHS medical negligence persisting in England ‘despite 24 years of warnings’ – MPs on influential committee excoriate health department and NHS England for errors costing £3.6bn a year. Medical negligence in the NHS keeps harming and killing patients because governments and health service bosses have not acted on 24 years’ worth of warnings, MPs have said. In a scathing report published on Friday, the public accounts commit…

ACSO comments on Public Accounts Committee report on the costs of clinical negligence | Association of Consumer Support Organisations (ACSO)

ACSO comments on Public Accounts Committee report on the costs of clinical negligence Matthew Maxwel… Fri, 30/01/2026 - 08:52 Comments Opinions Reports Updates

Government and NHS fail to slash negligence costs despite decades of warnings

The Government and NHS England have failed to take “any meaningful steps” to slash the rising costs of clinical negligence in England despite 20 years worth of warnings, according to MPs. The “lack of action” was branded “especially disappointing” by the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) amid widespread budget cuts and redundancies in the health service. It comes after figures revealed that total liabilities for medical negligence have quadrupled …