NHS compensation payouts 'unsustainable', say health leaders

Rising cost of compensation payments diverting funds away from frontline care, justice secretary told

Payouts given to NHS patients who have been victims of negligence should be reduced because they are “unsustainable”, health service leaders have told the justice secretary.

The rising cost of payouts is diverting significant amounts of funding away from frontline patient care, they said in a letter seen by the Guardian.

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