Canadian Medical
Practitioner's Actions Awards

Why Canada should adopt "No Fault" compensation policies to help patients instead of giving money to legal teams at CMPA​​

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• Economic benefits of "no fault" as demonstrated in other countries

https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/publication/2012/jun/improving-patient-safety-and-lowering-malpractice-costs-through

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• In 2013 there were 28,000 deaths due to patient safety incidents ranked 3rd after cancer and heart disease in Canada. (See page #14 Figure #1)

http://www.patientsafetyinstitute.ca/en/About/Documents/The%20Case%20for%20Investing%20in%20Patient%20Safety.pdf

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• ​Is Canada’s medical malpractice system working?

http://healthydebate.ca/2014/11/topic/cmpa-medical-malpractice​

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• Ethical argument supporting "no fault" compensation

http://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/2007/04/oped1-0704.html​

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• “The three main functions of a medical regulatory system (open & transparent reporting, no fault comp) are to provide compensation for injury, accountability, and deterrence, and mechanisms that enable learning.”

https://bjgp.org/content/67/654/38​

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• “Our current fault-based system for handling … cases can take years to be settled. Expert hired witnesses, some of dubious professional status, are called upon because the busiest specialists are reluctant to become involved in what can be a time-consuming and intimidating exercise.”

https://theconversation.com/why-dont-we-create-a-no-fault-scheme-for-medicalinjuries-25329​

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• Journal of Ethics : “Patients who suffer adverse health care.... engage a plaintiff attorney and begin a long journey down the tort pathway to seek compensation. This process is adversarial and has many inconsistencies...clever lawyering skills can distort the picture … an award ... is usually years after the adverse event, and the award is reduced by a large percentage that covers the attorney's fees and expenditures associated with the trial.”

https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/no-fault-cure-medical-liabilitycrisiscommentary-1/2007-04​

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• “The data examined in this report suggest that there is an imbalance between the value Canadians receive and the relatively high amount of money they spend on their health-care system.”

https://www.fraserinstitute.org/studies/comparing-performance-of-universal-health-care-countries-2019​​