Not my problem bro. If you use a free health service we should be contracted to accept the risks within it, or take out insurance to cover worse case events. The NHS is free, I'm not just saying this about an individual case or cases, as a general whole why should the tax payer pay out. I certainly could think of better things to do with £11.5B like helping the four million kids in poverty, rather than someones family because the victim has since passed on.
Minor then compared to todays estimates. and wait for the shocker....we all know it's going to get worse, as we dive into this American style culture.
I think you'd find that if a private healthcare provider was found guilty of using contaminated blood supplies, they would also have to pay compensation to the victims. Oh and we're over here now lol
It's a stinger for the taxpayer. But the NHS is state owned (just about) and therefore the compensation has to come out of the pubic purse.
Don't mean to say I have to agree with that. Why have we turned into a compensation culture?....because we have allowed the American way to infest our system, and we shouldn't. I'm talking in general not just about what was focused on today. Every time I entered a doctors or consultants office or hospital, NHS and Private, not once did I ever think if they fook up I can make a claim, it;s an accepted risk....or is to me. I don't like this compensation culture, it;s the same with car insurance it's just turned into who can shaft who the most.
There's always a risk with medical interventions. You are usually made aware of those from the doctor or surgeon, or pharmacist if you're taking meds. But there's a difference between normal risk factors and medical malpractice
We didn't use to have this problem. The worst thing you can do these days is say sorry, because the very next words are 'how much?' £$£$£$£$£ Then we wonder why our politics is fooked.
Surely you agree that it's right that medical malpractice shouldn't be accepted though ? If you went for an operation (which the risks were explained to you) and the surgeon gave you sepsis because he used dirty equipment, and took out your kidney when he was supposed to take out your appendix, would you view that as an accepted risk ?
Malpractise should be dealt with as a private prosecution against the individual, not the taxpayer. Much like the post office, prosecute those responsible, send them to prison and seize their assets.
I've no idea, I've seen no year on year stats for the last 50 years, but I certainly don't remember us paying out £11.5B before
The PO has been made to pay compensation. I agree that the individuals should be prosecuted. In the contaminated blood scandal though, the numbers of people infected, something like 30,000 means it would be difficult to pin down who exactly would be liable for prosecution, as it would have been a range of hematologists, doctors, and associated staff. It's quite likely that a lot of those are now dead and wouldn't be able to be prosecuted now anyway. Ultimately, it's the organisation that needs to take responsibility and in this case it's the NHS. The figures are eye watering, but then so are the numbers of people infected.
I can imagine a customer choking on one of Piskies ice creams in the future, not bubble gum flavour, because he don't have that, but another and them suing him for his house and money, leaving his family begging on the streets - yeah, let's see if he agrees with the compensation culture then...as he peddles off into the sunset on his three and half grand bike the customer never knew he had, laughing to himself, you never got this, only for a big fook off rock to come crashing out the sky and mangling it into a scrapheap, god works in mysterious ways.
Exactly my point! The NHS and the State shouldn't be paying out anything, we should have a system that covers our liabilities. And if that means people paying some cover fee through taxation then so be it. We can't afford £11.5B at the moment, we have a financial black hole to fill, half of it swallowed up by compensation claims.
