NHS: Legal Costs
(asked on 27th July 2020) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether the £143.5 million for NHS legal costs listed on page 18 of the report by NHS Resolution, Annual report and accounts 2019/20, published on 16 July, includes staff costs and office costs incurred in connection with clinical negligence cases.
This question was answered on 20th August 2020
National Health Service legal costs do not include staff and office costs incurred in connection with clinical negligence cases.