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Pentland Medical becomes latest AvMA “Partner for Patient Safety”
February 1, 2022AvMA is delighted to welcome Pentland Medical as our latest “Partner for Patient Safety”. Partners for Patient Safety is AvMA’s corporate membership scheme which enables companies and public bodies to align themselves with the cause of patient safety and support the vital charitable work that AvMA does. AvMA believes that everyone has a role to play […]
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Fixed recoverable costs proposals “illogical and potentially unfair”
January 31, 2022The Government had today (31 January 2022) opened a consultation into fixed recoverable costs in lower value clinical negligence claims in England and Wales. The consultation proposes a new scheme which the Government claims will “enable claimants and defendants to achieve faster resolution of ‘lower value’ clinical negligence claims (claims valued up to and including […]