Medical Negligence is certainly contributing to bankrupting medical provision around the world. Yet the true nature of the negligence cannot be admitted, and so is never discussed.

“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?

March 2022. The Scandal of NHS Maternity Care, Just one sector of the NHS that is failing because its medicine does not work safely.

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.

It’s not negligence.

It’s the application of a failed medical system that harms patients.

Health Cuts Proposed Across England. A Bankrupt NHS?

There are three main factors in the failure of the conventional medical system throughout the world, a medicine that has dominated our lives for so many decades.

The first is that conventional medical treatment is ineffective. It fails to make us better. We take the drugs, accept the vaccines, but still the rates of illness and disease within society increases. As a nation, we are not getting better, we sicker now than when the pharmaceutical bonanza started with the free NHS in 1947.

The second is that pharmaceutical drugs and vaccines, the very basis of conventional medicine, are harmful to patients. They are called 'side effects' or 'adverse reactions', but in fact what they are when  examined more closely, is more illness, and more disease. It is conventional medicine that is actually making us sicker.

The third has perhaps been less obvious, although I have spoken about it often on this blog.

          Medical negligence threaten to bankrupt the NHS
          Crisis grows in British NHS.
          NHS brings down governments.

The latest crisis to hit the NHS is now with us. It is outlined in this BBC article, 26th August 2016.
And I expect most people will be asking for more resources for the NHS, for more of the same ineffective drugs and vaccines, which will go on producing more and more illness and disease, which will increase demands for the same old treatment, more NHS overspends, more demands for resources.

The reaction to this new crisis should be threefold:

• an investigation into why conventional medicine. that has an annual spend of £120 billion, has been unable to reduce patient demands, and why chronic illness like Autism, Dementia, Diabetes, et al, are constantly on the rise. 
• It should undertake some comparative studies that look at the performance, particularly the outcomes for patients of conventional medicine, and comparing these with the performance of alternative therapies. 
• It should look at how alternative medical therapies can be enlisted to help reduce the NHS bill, with treatments that are more effective, which do not cause side effects (hence more illness), and which are less expensive to begin with.

None of this will happen immediately, although it will have to happen eventually. Instead, patients who know no better, and a media that does not want to know better, will force the government, who knows no different, to spend more money on the NHS. Taxpayers will have to put their hands in their pockets, yet again, to spend even more resources on pharmaceutical drugs and vaccines that have failed, are failing us, and will always fail us.

The pharmaceutical drug and vaccine bonanza will continue for a little longer!