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Research by Mark Clarke has revealed that the total cost of compensation resulting from the failures at the maternity unit at St George’s Hospital was a staggering £2.8 million over the last three years.  This is a huge sum of money which should have been spent on front line care but actually has had to be paid out to support the care for damaged babies. This data shows that having a poor maternity unit can leave us with both damaged babies and a huge taxpayers’ bills. For too long there have been problems with St George’s Hospital maternity care. These problems have been highlighted in the last Healthcare Commission report which was damning about local maternity care. This new data shows that cutting back on maternity care is a false economy if it leads to damaged babies. That’s why Mark Clarke will always stick up for improvements in our local maternity service – it’s the right thing to do and will actually save us money.

 

 

Over the last year lawyers made £950,000 from fees relating to maternity problems at St George’s Hospital. Nearly a million pounds which should have been spent on maternity care actually went to the lawyers. No wonder our country’s finances are such a mess when our priorities are so wrong. The Government have continually talked about their success in investing in the NHS. But how is a million pounds in lawyers fees for one department from one hospital investment? It’s not; it’s just a sign of the waste in our public finances and quite literally the cost of failure.