1. Clinical negligence costs: taking action to safeguard NHS sustainability
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Daniel Punch, Christopher Wai Hung Yau, Tim Draycott, Elisa Liberati, Bertie Leigh, Mary Dixon-Woods, Liberati, Elisa [0000-0003-4981-1210], Dixon-Woods, Mary [0000-0002-5915-0041], and Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
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Risk Management ,Malpractice ,Liability ,MEDLINE ,Liability, Legal ,General Medicine ,030204 cardiovascular system & hematology ,State Medicine ,United Kingdom ,Clinical negligence ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Safeguard ,Harm ,Action (philosophy) ,ComputerApplications_MISCELLANEOUS ,Sustainability ,Costs and Cost Analysis ,Humans ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Business ,Analysis ,Law and economics - Abstract
The NHS cannot afford to divert more and more money to litigation, and we need to tackle the problem at source. Tim Draycott and colleagues set out four principles to reduce avoidable harm
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- 2020