NHS compensation counting the cost

Just over 441k people are living in care homes in the UK and while that represents only around 3.7% of the over-65 population, for those residents, the terms of their contract with their care home are of paramount importance.

The headline news in The Sun recently claimed that the NHS “paid £40.3 million compensation last year” to patients whose cancers had not been diagnosed or incorrectly diagnosed.

The Supreme Court heard the appeal in Hirachand v Hirachand in January 2024, and the judgment has been long awaited and was handed down on 18 December 2024.