2 Conclusion
13. Given the difficulties identified in our previous
report Compensation Culture[3]
and the issues raised in the Minister's letter, when this
Bill comes before the House the Minister might be asked:
- How the Department of Health
will satisfy claimants that NHS funded experts will be demonstrably
independent, whom the Department has consulted on this issue and
what progress the Department has made in identifying independent
medical experts?
- Whether the Department of Health has decided
upon the level of fixed fees to be paid to doctors and lawyers
under the scheme and whether they have consulted to ensure that
there are professionals who would be willing to work for those
fees;
- Given the level of uncertainty as to the number
of additional claimants who could come forward under the scheme,
and the fact that for each additional claimant money would be
diverted from the provision of patient care, whether the Department
of Health is willing to run a pilot of the Redress scheme to test
the level of claims.
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