Are clinical negligence and legal action related?
- 11 September 2003
- Vol. 327 (7415), 620
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.327.7415.620
Abstract
EDITOR—The chief medical officer's report Making Amends is welcome if only because it recognises that the system of compensation for clinical negligence is in need of radical reform.1 2 Legal action is expensive, inefficient, and involves delay. However, the report does not address the system's central failure: the relation …This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit: