NHS: Legal Costs
(asked on 23rd February 2015) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average legal costs to the NHS of bringing legal proceedings against doctors who have been excluded from their hospitals were in each of the last three years.
This question was answered on 26th February 2015
Maintaining High Professional Standards sets out the agreed procedure for legal involvement in National Health Service disciplinary proceedings against doctors, but no information is held centrally on the legal costs.