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NHS Redress Bill [Lords]

I am interested in what my hon. Friend is saying, but I must caution him. He is right to say that we must change the culture, but in my time—my experience goes back five years, because it is five years since I stopped practising as a lawyer—I made hundreds, if not thousands, of negligence claims against the NHS. All too often, the problem was that the solicitors from outside the health service who were engaged on contracts by the NHS were absolute rubbish. They did not know what they were doing, they were far too slow, they incurred far too many costs on behalf of the NHS, and the cases often folded at the last minute. That culture needs to be changed.