NHS medical negligence persisting in England ‘despite 24 years of warnings’

Medical negligence in the NHS keeps harming and killing patients because governments and health service bosses have not acted on 24 years’ worth of warnings, MPs have said. Last year, acute concern about maternity care across the NHS in England prompted Wes Streeting, the health secretary, to order an inquiry, led by Valerie Amos, into maternity care. The PAC found in the report that:The £3.6bn cost of medical negligence is diverting funds away from frontline NHS care. Its decision to remove a ringfence around dedicated funding for improving maternity care was “nonsensical”, she added. A report published on Thursday about patient safety globally ranked the UK 21st of the 38 OECD member countries studied by experts at Imperial College London and Patient Safety Watch.