By Alec Fullerton For The Daily Mail
Published: 00:40 BST, 13 May 2019 | Updated: 01:06 BST, 13 May 2019
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The NHS’s annual compensation bill for blunders and delays has doubled to more than £650 million in five years, it was reported last night.
Patients’ groups said the increase was ‘extremely worrying’, adding that people were dying because of an increase in waiting times for appointments, diagnosis and treatment.
In 2017-18 the NHS paid £655million to 1,789 patients in negligence compensation – an increase from the £327million paid to 1,406 patients in 2013-14, The Daily Telegraph reported.
The NHS’s annual compensation bill for blunders and delays has doubled to more than £650 million in five years, it was reported last night
Last year’s data includes 1,100 patients who faced slow or ineffective treatment and 679 who were misdiagnosed or experienced a delay in being
