Charlie’s Story, the current Rebuilding Shattered Lives campaign film, surpassed four million online views this week.
It is a major milestone for the campaign, which seeks to put injured people at the heart of any policymaking in relation to the law on personal injury and clinical negligence.
Charlie’s Story highlights the needs of children who suffer injuries at birth at a time when the cost of settling negligence claims is under scrutiny. As the Government considers its next steps for addressing litigation costs, which are due to be revealed this autumn, NHS Resolution has reported a year-on-year increase on negligence spend of 4.8 per cent.
“The cost boils down, for the most part, to paying for social care,” said APIL president Guy Forster in his latest blog for the APIL website.
Social care provision “is the difference between an injured person or a disabled child merely existing in a bed, or being able to have a life which is worth living,” he explained.
Guy urged readers to watch Charlie’s Story. “It is an emotional watch and demonstrates why full and fair compensation is so essential to the lives of victims of avoidable harm,” he said.
The film will be played to assembled parliamentarians at APIL’s clinical negligence briefing event taking place in Westminster next month. Members will be updated with further details in forthcoming issues of Weekly News.
“None of the multitude of reasons for increased costs are the fault of injured patients, or indeed their lawyers who help them to pick up the pieces and secure the answers, and redress they need,” said Guy.
