NHS in England faces paying out £4.3bn in legal fees to settle outstanding clinical negligence claims, BBC learns
Hayden died when he was just six days old
Estimates published last year put the total cost of outstanding compensation claims at £83bn. NHS England's total budget in 2018-19 was £129bn. Hayden Nguyen was born in August 2016. Six days later he died in the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in London. His heart failed after it was attacked by a virus.
His father Thong said:"It was every parent's worst nightmare. We had to sit there and watch our son slowly die in front of our eyes.
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