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Maternity services is often perceived as a troublesome business and obstetric litigation is on the increase in Western countries. Overall, the number of claim and cost of litigation to the NHS Litigation Authority (NHSLA) from maternity services in the UK is increasing every year. Maternity services account for 60–70% of the total sum paid. This has widespread implications for both the individual practitioners and the institutions where they work, due to increasing malpractice insurance premiums. Fear of litigation is also attracting fewer medical graduates into the specialty, leading to a recruitment crisis in obstetrics and gynaecology. The litigation process can cause pain, suffering and distress to clinicians as well as to the patients and their families. Litigation in maternity services is the result of a complex of events when malpractice (presumed or real) impacts on the attitude of pregnant women and their environment. In such complexity, information is mandatory but may often be misinterpreted. If messages are not tailored to the receiver’s capacity, communicating well with the pregnant patient becomes crucial. Therefore, to reduce medicallegal issues in obstetrics, increasing attention and an applicable standard of obstetric care to avoid negligence and medical errors should go along with other measures. Considering UK’s experiences, NHS redress scheme make it easier to pursue small claims and birth related claims, without necessarily reducing the number of claims processed through the conventional legal system and perhaps encouraging even more of them. The task of dealing with the greater number of inquiries into their practice would inevitably create an added burden for clinicians and hospital managers. Thus further proposals are required to limit the cost of processing inflated claims and to consider whether clinicians should be given some protection from litigation alleging a failure to prevent birth related impairment.

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I. 서론
  1. 연구 배경
  2. 연구목적 및 방법
 II. 영국의 의료체계
 III. 영국의 의료과오보상 현황
 IV. 영국의 의료과오보상체계
  1. The NHS Litigation Authority (국가보건서비스 소송국: NHSLA)
  2. NHS redress scheme (국가보건서비스 구제제도)
 V. NHSLA의 모성서비스관련 의료과오 보상사례
 VI. 고찰 및 결론
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소송 임상과오 NHS 구제제도 국가의료서비스 모성서비스 임신 Litigation Clinical negligence NHS redress scheme National Health Service Maternity services Pregnancy

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• 한동운 [ Dongwoon Han | 한양대학교 ]
• 황정혜 [ Jung Hye Hwang | 한양대학교 ]

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