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Should Nhs Hospitals Collude With Ambulance-Chasing Lawyers?
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Now there needs to be some redress for negligence but with Ambulance-chasing lawyers costing the service £440 million a year with some hospitals even renting the pond life office space is enough enough?
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These lawyers are a deeply corrosive influence on the NHS.
Most people just want an independent investigation and then an apology if appropriate.
The NHS used to have very good systems (at least in my area) for doing this - and clinical practice was improved as a result of open and honest investigations.
But as soon as the lawyers became involved, we had no choice but to pull the plug on our own investigations and clam up tight - our own lawyers insisted on that - which was deeply unsatisfactory and potentially dangerous if it then took years for the reasons for errors to be determined in the courts.
Yes, people need answers and (if appropriate) compensation - but an adversarial legal process is not the way to do it - the main beneficiaries are (as so often) leeches from the fringes of the legal profession.
Most people just want an independent investigation and then an apology if appropriate.
The NHS used to have very good systems (at least in my area) for doing this - and clinical practice was improved as a result of open and honest investigations.
But as soon as the lawyers became involved, we had no choice but to pull the plug on our own investigations and clam up tight - our own lawyers insisted on that - which was deeply unsatisfactory and potentially dangerous if it then took years for the reasons for errors to be determined in the courts.
Yes, people need answers and (if appropriate) compensation - but an adversarial legal process is not the way to do it - the main beneficiaries are (as so often) leeches from the fringes of the legal profession.
I am with YMB here. Leaving some leaflets around a Hospital is one thing but allowing them easy access to the patients themselves, especially when those patients are not at their best is just not acceptable.
Or legal come to that....do Hospitals really allow Solicitors such easy to access to Wards....seems unbelievable !
Or legal come to that....do Hospitals really allow Solicitors such easy to access to Wards....seems unbelievable !
mikey...nobody is suggesting that solicitors have access to WARDS, what the solicitors do provide is legal advice within the hospital environment, for which they pay and money directed to hospital needs..
YMB no! no! no! nobody has suggested that the NHS is a "total and utter shambles"....it needs some reorganization, but still plays a major part of healthcare in the United Kingdom.
YMB no! no! no! nobody has suggested that the NHS is a "total and utter shambles"....it needs some reorganization, but still plays a major part of healthcare in the United Kingdom.
no
being a landlord is not collusion
even in TMF speak
should an organisation pay attention to the tenants purpose ?
no - money is money and we are letting to get money so let us go for the greatest rent per sq ft
or yes - when the royal college of anaesthetists let scaffolding advert space I was keen that they shouldnt let to a private abortion clinic ( none in fact applied) - someone said " well what about wonderbra ? " - and I said o my god they are gonna say look at the tots outside and there are even bigger tots inside ! ( wonderbra didnt apply )
I dont see this as a great news item
being a landlord is not collusion
even in TMF speak
should an organisation pay attention to the tenants purpose ?
no - money is money and we are letting to get money so let us go for the greatest rent per sq ft
or yes - when the royal college of anaesthetists let scaffolding advert space I was keen that they shouldnt let to a private abortion clinic ( none in fact applied) - someone said " well what about wonderbra ? " - and I said o my god they are gonna say look at the tots outside and there are even bigger tots inside ! ( wonderbra didnt apply )
I dont see this as a great news item
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