"Nearly 50m of taxpayers' money has been paid by the NHS to an outsourced firm assessing claims of medical harm caused by vaccines, the BBC has found. The figure is eight times the amount originally estimated for the assessment work carried out by Crawford & Company Adjusters - and almost 20m more than the total so far awarded to those injured or bereaved as a result of Covid vaccines."
"More than 22,000 claims related to Covid vaccines have been made so far, most of them relating to the jab manufactured by AstraZeneca - but only about 1% have resulted in compensation payouts. They are handled by the UK-wide Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme (VDPS), for which Crawford has carried out medical assessments since March 2022. One law professor told the BBC that "the nature of the [Crawford] contract was peculiar", and that because of the "significant uncertainty" at the time it was drawn up, they would have expected to see a shorter one that had a cap on the number of claims processed."
Nearly 50m has been paid by the NHS to Crawford & Company Adjusters for medical assessments of vaccine-related harm, about eight times the original estimate of 6m. The amount paid is almost 20m more than the total awarded so far to people injured or bereaved after Covid vaccines. Crawford’s five-year contract began in March 2022 and has more than a year left to run, though another company will take over soon. More than 22,000 Covid vaccine claims have been made, mostly about the AstraZeneca jab, with roughly 1% resulting in compensation. The NHS says costs rose because claim volumes exceeded anticipated levels, while a law professor described the contract as peculiar and said a shorter, capped contract would have been expected given the uncertainty at the time. Payments to Crawford for assessments are separate from compensation awards.
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