CIVIL PROCEDURE PRE-ACTION PROTOCOLS

CLINICAL NEGLIGENCE PROTOCOL


CONTENTS

Executive Summary
1. Why this Protocol ?
2. The Aims and Objectives
3. The Protocol
(a) Best Practice Commitments
(b) Steps
4. Experts
5. Alternative approaches to resolving disputes
ANNEXES
A Illustrative Flowchart (PDF)
B Medical Records Protocol
C Templates - Letters of claim and response
D Lord Woolf 's recommendations on Medical Negligence and Protocols in his Access to Justice final report 1996
E How to contact the Forum and the Lord Chancellor's Department


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