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Mistakes on maternity wards 'setting the NHS back almost £1billion a year' in lawsuits

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Mistakes made on maternity wards are setting the NHS back almost £1 billion each year in lawsuits, former Cabinet member Jeremy Hunt has said.

The ex-health secretary claims nearly twice as much is being spent on lawsuits after poor care for mothers and babies as the total pay of labour doctors in hospitals in England.

Using a freedom of information request, Mr Hunt obtained figures that show £952m was paid in compensation and litigation related to maternity services in 2018/19.

Mr Hunt wrote in the Daily Mail that "something has gone badly wrong" when, by comparison, obstetricians and gynaecologists working in the NHS in England earned a total of £586m during the same period.

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