The reason that this is so startling is because this increase will consume about a third of the extra funding that hospitals have managed to secure to improve healthcare standards.

NHS Litigation CEO, Steve Walker says that the large increase in compensation payments has come about as a direct result of the Thompstone judgement. This is the latest ruling from the court of appeal that changes the way that payments are calculated.

Statistically, more than half of the payments for compensation are towards maternity related cases. The Royal College of Midwives argues that if they received the proper amount of funding for education, the amount of claims would drop as a result.

Clinical negligence is a problem that seems to be increasing and compensation claims are consuming more and more money that should go towards training and equipment. It seems that if the correct training and equipment were available in the first place, the problem might solve itself.