NHS compensation for medicine blunders at highest level in decade

NHS compensation for medicine blunders at highest level in decade

NHS spending on payouts for medication errors in England is now at its highest level in almost a decade, The i Paper can reveal.Patients being given the wrong drug or wrong dosage, or drugs being injected or administered incorrectly, cost the NHS £54.9m in 2023-24. This number has more than doubled from the £21.5m paid out in 2016-17, according to data from NHS Resolution, which handles claims.Some 264 people, including 19 children, have died du…