NHS managers risk court over clinical errors
NHS managers should be legally responsible for some clinical negligence cases, a patient safety expert has argued.Brian Toft, a professor of patient safety at Coventry University and incident investigator, believes that where healthcare professionals have told managers about a problem with their care environment, the manager should be liable for incidents related to the problem.
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