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James Badenoch QC asks whether it is right that members of the medical profession should be subject to litigation when things go wrong. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Annual spending on the Clinical Negligence Scheme for Trusts has quadrupled in ten years, from £0.4 billion in 2006–2007 to £1.6 billion in 2016–2017. Here, Roger Kirby discusses what the recent tsunami of clinical negligence claims means for the medical profession. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Any doctor can make a mistake: the important thing is to be honest with yourself and your patient, to take responsibility for the error, and to learn from it. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Complaints to the General Medical Council (GMC) and litigation against doctors are currently rising at an alarming rate, with an increase of 23 per cent from 7153 in 2010 to 8781 in 2011.1 This equates to a 1:64 chance of the GMC investigating any individual doctor. Of all the causes of dissatisfaction among patients, one of the most common is the feeling that they 'were not told' that a particular outcome might result from a given treatment. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]