Cuts to legal aid have helped fuel rises in the amount that clinical negligence costs the NHS, Robert Francis QC has said. Francis, who led the public inquiry into failings at Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust, raised the issue at a Westminster Health Forum seminar on clinical negligence in London on 14 September. He said that restrictions on access to justice had not helped to contain increases in litigation costs, and may …

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削减法律援助可能助长了医疗过失费用的上升

罗伯特·弗朗西斯（Robert Francis QC）表示，削减法律援助有助于加剧临床过失给国民保健服务（NHS）造成的损失。弗朗西斯（Francis）在9月14日在伦敦举行的威斯敏斯特卫生论坛临床过失问题研讨会上提出了这个问题，弗朗西斯在斯塔福德郡中部NHS基金会信托基金中对失败进行了公开调查。他说，对诉诸司法的限制无助于遏制诉讼费用的增加，并且可能……