keoghs – The rising cost of clinical negligence

In September last year, the Government announced that it would introduce fixed recoverable costs (FRC), a new streamlined process for clinical negligence claims with a damages value of £1,501 to £25,000 in England and Wales. The objectives of the scheme are to create a faster, fairer and more cost-effective system that benefits both claimants and defendants in a claim and to subsequently reduce the costs to the NHS.