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Surgery: Negligence

Commons · Question 79811 · Tabled 10 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 23 Oct 2025

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Asked by Blake Stephenson

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the policy paper entitled 10 Year Health Plan for England: fit for the future, published on 3 July 2025, how clinical negligence cases involving mistakes by surgical robots will b

Answer

Answered by Zubir Ahmed, 23 Oct 2025

NHS Resolution (NHSR) manages clinical negligence and other claims against the National Health Service in England.The bulk of NHSR’s workload is handling negligence claims on behalf of the members of their indemnity schemes. One of the indemnity schemes i...