Covid-19: doctors need to be protected from clinical negligence claims

The Medical Defence Union (MDU) says doctors should be spared from the stress and anxiety of medical negligence claims following the pandemic. It said that several US states including New York, New Jersey and Michigan have already adopted laws that provide healthcare professionals and hospitals with €œimmunity from civil liability for any injury or death alleged to have been sustained because of any acts or omissions undertaken in good faith€ during the crisis. It says that in the US and UK, in primary and secondary care, doctors are being asked to work outside their expertise in areas where they may not