NHS: Legal Costs

Department of Health written question – answered at on 26 February 2015.

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Photo of John Howell John Howell Conservative, Henley

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.

Photo of Daniel Poulter Daniel Poulter The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health

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.

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