Appointment Of The Chair Of The NHS Litigation Authority
Christine Beasley said "I am delighted that Professor Dame Joan Higgins has been appointed as Chair of the NHSLA. The NHSLA has established itself as a centre of excellence under the stewardship of the outgoing Chairman Ronald Bradshaw and I am sure that Dame Joan will uphold and build on this tradition. There are many challenges ahead for the NHSLA as the NHS continues with reforms, diversity of provision and patient choice. With Dame Joan's leadership, I am confident the NHSLA will be very well equipped to respond to those challenges."
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Article adapted by Start Sanatate from original press release.
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Notes:
1. Biography of the appointee:
Dame Joan Higgins is Emeritus Professor of Health Policy at the University of Manchester. She is the outgoing Chair of the Christie NHS Trust, which is a specialist cancer centre in Manchester. She is also Chair of the Patient Information Advisory Group in the Department of Health. This is concerned with patient consent and confidentiality in the use of patients' records. She has held academic posts at the Universities of Portsmouth, Southampton (where she was Professor of Social Policy) and Manchester (where she was Professor of Health Policy, from 1992, and Director of the Manchester Centre for Healthcare Management). From 2002-3 she was President of the European Health Management Association. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Honorary Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health Medicine, Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Health Record Information and Management and Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine.
2. The National Health Service Litigation Authority is a Special Health Authority set up under Section 11 of the NHS Act 1977. Its date of commencement is 21 November 1995. The principal task of the Authority is to administer schemes set up under Section 21 of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990. This enables the Secretary of State to set up one or more schemes to help NHS bodies pool the costs of any "loss of or damage to property and liabilities to third parties for loss, damage or injury arising out of the carrying out of [their] functions". There are currently five schemes:
i) a scheme covering liabilities for alleged clinical negligence where the original incident occurred on or after 1 April 1995 (the "Clinical Negligence Scheme for Trusts" or CNST;
ii) a scheme covering liabilities for clinical negligence incidents which occurred before that date (the "Existing Liabilities Scheme" or ELS);
iii) a scheme covering the outstanding liabilities for clinical negligence in respect of the former Regional Health Authorities;
iv) a scheme relating to any liability to any third party where the original incident occurred on or after 1 April 1999 (the Liability to Third Party Scheme or LTPS);
v.) a scheme relating to any expenses incurred from any loss or damage to property where the original loss occurred on or after 1 April 1999 (the Property Expenses Scheme or PES)
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