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Negligence payouts: the cost of NHS cuts
There has been a 30 per cent increase in claims against our health service in the past decade, costing our health service £2.4bn in 2019 alone, writes STEVEN WALKER
NICK WRIGHT considers how the isolation of Israel and a new film on the controversial Italian communist leader are creating new reference points for Italy’s left
CARLOS MARTINEZ says Cuba’s achievements in the face of a criminal blockade are startling, but the island’s future if the United States succeeds in crushing it looks bleak
AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN reports that far-right MPs who mobbed the event organised by Hadash may have helped raise awareness of the brutality of the Israeli right
Born on this day in 1931, the heroic revolutionary faces a dangerous new wave of White House aggression. We must treat his birthday as a rallying cry to resist the illegal siege of Cuba, writes ROGER McKENZIE
RAMZY BAROUD decries the rats of Gaza, the rodent and human type. Both abound as profiteering from tragedy reaches obscene levels
AS health unions, doctors and nurses prepare for strike action over pay offers, a largely ignored, recently released report by the NHS shows the staggering sums being paid out in compensation to those individuals, families and relatives affected by medical negligence due to staff shortages.
The annual report and accounts for NHS Resolution, an arm’s-length body set up to administer claims against GPs and hospital staff, reveals that at the end of the last financial year, the NHS had paid nearly £83 billion in liabilities in relation to historic claims received, or new claims likely to be received in future.
That figure is nearly half of the whole NHS and social care budget for 2021, or enough to build 150 new hospitals.
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