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Health Service Safety Investigations Bill
September 14, 2017The draft Health Service Safety Investigations Bill published today would prohibit all information discovered by the Health Service Safety Investigation Body or by accredited trusts from being disclosed – even to patients or their families when the information is directly relevant to what happened in their treatment.
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‘Learning after Deaths’ – the ‘next steps’ day
September 4, 2017NHS England is inviting family members to express an interest in attending a ‘Learning after Deaths’ – the ‘next steps’ day on 1 November 2017 in London.
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AvMA calls Jackson review of civil litigation ‘disappointing’
July 31, 2017AvMA is disappointed that Lord Justice Jackson’s report published today fails to truly recognise the impact that imposing fixed recoverable costs on clinical negligence cases will have.
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NHS plans will fuel culture of ‘deny and defend’
July 28, 2017Talking in the Telegraph today, AvMA Chief Executive Peter Walsh warned of the dangers of the Government’s plans to impose ‘fixed recoverable costs’ on clinical negligence claims.
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Patients should be told about medical records scandal
June 27, 2017AvMA is calling upon NHS England to take urgent action to contact over 1,700 patients who may have suffered harm as a result of the blunder which has seen patient records wrongly destroyed.