3. No Fault Patient Compensation

3. No Fault Patient Compensation

Definition: it refers to that patient who suffers from an adverse medical event is entitled to compensation without having to prove any other party was at fault in it.

Benefits:

·encourage a cooperative relationship between physicians and patients;

·encourage physicians to report and learn from errors;

·improve quality of care and medical service;

·reduces social financial burden by less law suit costs and less administrative costs;

·quick and uniform payments to all claimants.

An ideal system should have the following characteristics:

1. encourage healthcare professionals to report errors;
2. send strong quality improvement signals with financial incentives for safety and quality;
3. include mechanisms to deal with the small number of rogue or reckless clinicians who harm patients;
4. act to reinforce rather than undermine the honesty and openness of the clinician-patient relationship;
5. where appropriate, patients should be compensated in a manner that is speedy, equitable, affordable, and predictable