A&E's Broken Basics: When Pressure Becomes a Recipe for Disaster The numbers are stark and disturbing.
In England, clinical negligence claims related to accident and emergency (A&E) care have risen by 41% over the past five years. With over 1,623 cases in 2025 26 alone, these claims exceeded £550 million last year.
The sheer scale of this issue is alarming, but it's the devastating consequences for families like Oli Coppock's that are most troubling.