New Insights: Exclusion trends and evaluation of NHS Resolution resources to manage exclusions
Our Practitioner Performance Advice service has published its latest Insights paper: Exclusion trends and evaluation of NHS Resolution resources to manage exclusions. This looks at episodes of formal exclusion in England on which advice was requested in the four year period 2019/20 to 2022/23. It …
Case of note: McCulloch (deceased) v. Forth Valley Health Board (Supreme Court – 12 July 2023)
Introduction This is an important ruling on consent to medical treatment by the Supreme Court, which clarifies an aspect of their landmark ruling in Montgomery v. Lanarkshire Health Board in 2015. Details Mr. McCulloch was admitted to hospital with severe chest pains on 23 March …
Publication of Factsheet 6 for 2022/23
On 12 July our Primary Care Appeals service published its Factsheet 6 for 2022/23. This annual publication provides a clear statistical overview of the appeals and disputes cases, pertaining to primary care, managed by the service each financial year. This year’s Factsheet 6 For the …
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BMJ Best Practice podcast – Diabetic foot disease with NHS Resolution Clinical Fellow, Nicole Mottolini
In a recently released BMJ Best Practice podcast Nicole Mottolini, podiatrist and erstwhile Clinical Fellow at NHS Resolution speaks to Dr Kieran Walsh, Clinical Director at the BMJ, about safer management of diabetic foot disease and NHS Resolution’s 2022 thematic review Diabetes and lower limb …
Our Safety and Learning offer for General Practice
Our Safety and Learning service covers engagement and education around risks, claims and patient safety best practice, including in general practice (GP) and primary care. Our general practice team draw on learning from claims in primary care to create resources to support primary care. They …
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Fixed Recoverable Costs for Lower Value Clinical Negligence Claims
On 15 September 2023, the Government announced that it will introduce fixed recoverable costs (FRC) and a new streamlined process for clinical negligence claims with a damages value of £1,501 to £25,000 in England and Wales. It is proposed these changes be implemented for claims …
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Emergency Medicine national conference – 9 October
NHS Resolution will be holding an emergency medicine conference on Monday 9 October 2023 at the Royal College of Physicians. The national event, entitled Implementing recommendations: Shared insights to reduce claims in emergency medicine, is to bring together professionals working in emergency departments across England …
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Publication of 2023 Claims Scorecards
We have made our 2023 claims scorecards available on our extranet for our members and have supported this with an email on Tuesday 29 August 2023. Our scorecard is a unique, interactive tool in an excel format to assist NHS trusts and their clinical teams …
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