06.05.16
Insurance payouts from accidents raise £15m for NHS
A new scheme for the NHS to recover the cost of treatment from personal injury compensation has raised nearly £15m in the first month.
The NHS Injury Costs Recovery Scheme aims to recover the cost of NHS treatment ‘primarily from insurance companies’ where personal injury compensation is paid, for example after a road traffic accident.
In April 2016, the scheme primarily benefited English trusts, who received £12,429,608 from money collected by the Compensation Recovery Unit.
Scottish trusts received £1,061,966, Welsh trusts received £797,279 and ambulance trusts received £646,812, for a total of £14,935,666.
The scheme comes at a time of unprecedented financial stress for the NHS, with the British Medical Association warning at a special representatives meeting on Wednesday that the government is “crippled by denial” about the scale of the crisis.
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