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Ian,

Sorry, but that's nonsense. Look at the way that Aviation deals with the aftermath of a crash (and I think it's fair to say any major aviation event leads to a LOT of litigation) and compare that with the NHS.

Moral hazard is absolutely something that the NHS should be concerned with . . . otherwise people die.

Look at the deaths from misuse of vincristine, it was only after the conviction x2 for GNM that the NHS changed its processes / procedures for the delivery of vincristine.

If you remove the 'fault' aspect from compensation then you remove the one external means of changing dysfunctional practice.

No fault schemes, while they reduce solicitors / claimants costs will not reduce the total bill: also would you be happy with something like CICA and a tariff as in NZ where LOE are capped at 80% of the IP's previous salary.

There's a good reason why so few countries have a no fault scheme and that's because on balance it is not a good idea.

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