“MPs have pressed NHS England and NHS Resolution on what concrete steps they are taking to tackle the rising cost of clinical negligence, warning that longstanding system failures - including poor complaints handling, maternity safety issues, and slow case progression - are driving avoidable spending”.
This is a quotation from the Medscape article (24 November 2025), “MPs probe NHS response to rising negligence costs” The article outlines the ever-growing scale of the problem.
future liabilities for clinical negligence claims are now estimated at £60 billion.
this figure quadruples in real terms the 2006-2007 figure.
the National Audit Office (NAO) had shown that annual negligent costs had increased from £1.1 billion in 2006-7 to £3.6 billion in 2024-5.
And demands for ‘action’ were growing. MPs said that the urgent issue now was to put the clinical negligence bill on “a more sustainable path”. And the NAO said it had repeatedly warned governments about the growth, that that “so far, no government has succeeded in controlling the cost”.
Indeed, the call for action have long been made in Britain, and I have written about the subject many times in recent years.
July 2016. Medical Negligence. A huge cost to patients, the NHS, and the national economy
Feb 2018. Patient harm? Medical blunders are bankrupting the NHS! Or is it just dangerous medicine?
Yet to take effective action in any situation requires first that the cause of the problem is identified accurately. And the main cause of ‘medical negligence’ is usually not negligence, it is the operation of a medical system that is inherently dangerous, and causes patient harm.
Unfortunately to admit this would require honesty. And the Conventional Medical Establishment (CME) is just not honest. To admit that their medicines, their treatments, cause patient harm would be anathema. But the CME is also sufficiently powerful to ensure that no-one else, politicians, mainstream media, dares raise the question.
The annual NHS budget for 2025-6 is £202 billion, due to rise to £232 billion in 2028-9. So these ‘negligence’ costs represent a significant strain on that budget. So it is little wonder that MPs, the NAO, and Medscape are addressing issue - yet again. But they are talking about “poor complaints handling”, “maternity safety issues”, “slow case progression”, and “legal costs” as the driving force.
There is no mention of a dominant medical system that is known to cause “side effects”, “adverse drug reactions”, and the like.
Negligence is the very tip of the patient harm iceberg. It is what can most clearly be seen. Underneath is the ever-increasing epidemic rise of chronic diseases, of all kinds, and a population that is sicker now than it has ever been. And no-one in the CME is willing to investigate this either, or even to allow anyone to mention it!
So it is likely that British MP’s, the NHS, and the NAO, et al, will be discussing the issue of medical negligence in the 2030’s and 2040’s, or until such time as we begin the look at the failure of Conventional Medicine with open eyes, and not closed minds. Moreover, we will be doing it not just in the UK, but in the USA, Canada, throughout Europe and the rest of the world.
