Axing legal aid for clinical negligence claims will cost the NHS an extra £28.5m a year, says report

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The UK government’s plans to scrap legal aid for clinical negligence claims in England and Wales will cost nearly three times as much as it saves and produce a net loss of £18m (€22m, $28m) a year, says an independent report from King’s College London.

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