Select committee: Health and Social Care Committee
Recommendation 14
Thirteenth Report - NHS litigation reform
Published 28 Apr 2022
Paragraph 124
Addressed to Department of Health and Social Care
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Recommendation (the committee's words)
The assessment of parental earnings in the calculation of damages for children under 18 years of age is unfair. It undermines the principle that damages should be calculated to meet a person’s needs and contradicts the principle of equality that sits at the heart of our health system. We recommend that the assessment of future earnings based on parental income should be scrapped for all NHS-related clinical negligence claims involving children under 18 years of age. We also recommend that such compensation is standardised against the national average wage to prevent unjust variability in compensation pay-outs.
From: Health and Social Care Committee, Thirteenth Report - NHS litigation reform (HC 740), paragraph 124, 28 April 2022
Government response
No government response linked yet: deadline 28 June 2022, 1587 days ago.