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If someone breaches their duty and causes damage then there is a legal system in place to compensate them. Note however that "compensate" means put them in the position they should have been had the breach not occurred.

And if you think that these centrally-funded oh so nice services will hold up their hands and say "we done wrong" then I have a nice bridge in London to sell you. The institutional cover-up is alive and kicking and it quite often takes legal representation to uncover it. Even a simple claim can be fought for no reason.

If you are truly saying that anyone who suffers at the hands of a service provided by government funding should not be compensated for a breach then go tell that to the Hillsborough 96, or the families engaged with the Shrewsbury and Telford NHS Trust review, or the bereaved at Gosport and so on.

As it stands, the NHS R moan is simply about bad old solicitors' fees. They could cut them down hugely by actually investigating probably and admitting breach on those cases where they ought to.

And, you forgot to mention that claimant solicitor contributions also fund the NHS, and that of any staff and so on. You also omit to deal with the 9 out of 10 enquiries we make where the claim doesn't get to letter of claim stage. How much have we actually saved the NHS there?