NHS hospitals are cashing in on posting adverts for no win no fee personal injury lawyers
- Publishers pay for contracts to make patient advice leaflets for NHS trusts
- Adverts feature on the back in a bid to continue to fund the free service
- But guidelines state trusts shouldn’t advertise personal injury lawyers
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NHS hospitals are cashing in by posting adverts for no win, no fee personal injury lawyers, it has been revealed.
Some trusts are paid up to £200,000 a year to display adverts on the back of patient advice leaflets, the BBC reports.
Personal injury lawyers are the only ones who can afford to advertise in order to keep the free service going, experts say.
But NHS guidelines state trusts ‘should not consider advertising personal injury or claims management services’.
However, the Department of Health have said the form of advertising is a matter for individual trusts to decide on.
Some trusts are paid up to £200,000 a year to display adverts on the back of patient advice leaflets, it has been revealed
Pro Vision Systems, based in Lytham St Annes, Lanacshire, has more than 200 contracts to supply racks of advertising cards in AE units.
While BOE Publishing, in Blackpool, told You and Yours that it is contracted to 129 NHS locations for its patient advice leaflets.
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On the back page of each booklet shows adverts, but the front displays the NHS logo and the local trust name. Contract agreements are believed to last for eight years on average.
A spokesperson for Pro Vision Systems told the news website that some hospitals are increasingly reliant on the extra revenue.
But NHS guidelines state trusts ‘should not consider advertising personal injury or claims management services
‘We know two trusts have used this money to pay months of overdue overtime,’ they added.
‘In one case, an AE department which only had three heart monitors used the money we provided to buy eight new ones.’
This comes after an investigation by The Mail on Sunday found that Britain’s biggest clinical negligence firm was paid almost £30 million by the NHS in legal costs.
Irwin Mitchell, which attracts clients on the promise of no win, no fee agreements, was paid £29,027,575 in 2015-16 alone.
That figure is almost three times the £11 million they obtained in the 2007-08 financial year.
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