Letters
Lawyers’ fees and NHS savings
Author’s reply
BMJ 2011; 343 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.d4036 (Published 05 July 2011) Cite this as: BMJ 2011;343:d4036
The values I quoted came from the justice secretary, Kenneth Clarke, who gave them during a radio interview.1 They were widely quoted, but he had mixed them up. In fact, £456m is the cost for damages (£312m) plus defence legal costs (£40m) plus claimant legal costs (£104m).
Notes
Cite this as: BMJ 2011;343:d4036
Footnotes
Competing interests: None declared.
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