Terms of use

The NHSLA’s Terms of use comprise a Legal notice and Privacy policy.  The NHSLA reserves the right to change its Terms of use without notice and place an updated version on this page.  It is the responsibility of the website user to check these Terms of use on a regular basis.

Legal notice

Service provider details

This website is provided by the National Health Service Litigation Authority (“the NHSLA”).  Details of our office and our contact details can be found under the Contact us section of this website. 

The NHSLA’s VAT number is 6549674 86.

Disclaimer

The NHSLA has taken every care in the preparation of the content of this website with regard to ensuring its accuracy and completeness.  However, the material provided on or from this site is intended to give general information only and is not intended to be relied upon or to be regarded as a substitute for legal advice.  Accordingly, the NHSLA does not accept any liability for loss or damage which may arise from reliance upon the information contained in any of the material on this website.

The content of any external internet site which is linked from this site or which links to this site via hyperlinks is third party content over which the NHSLA has no influence and for which the NHSLA accepts no responsibility.  Before any links are established to this site, you should contact us for our approval.  All enquiries of this nature should be addressed to foi@nhsla.com.

This disclaimer shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of England and Wales. 

Copyright notice

The content of this website is the copyright of the NHSLA, with the exception of the documents published by the Clinical Disputes Forum. You may re-use the information on this website which is the copyright of the NHSLA free of charge in any format. Re-use includes copying, issuing copies to the public, publishing, broadcasting and translating into other languages. It also covers non-commercial research and study. Re-use is subject to the following conditions. You must:

1.       acknowledge the source and our copyright in cases where you supply the information to others;

2.       reproduce the information accurately;

3.       not use the information in a misleading way;

4.       not use the information for the principle purpose of advertising or promoting a particular product or service.

Privacy policy

This Privacy policy sets out what personal information we gather about you when you visit our website, how we may use this information and who we may share it with. 

By submitting information about yourself to us using the email and office addresses provided on this website, you agree that we may process this information to respond to any enquiries, requests or comments that you send to us, for recruitment purposes where appropriate and to keep you up to date with the activities of the NHSLA.  We may use the information you provide to contact you by email, where necessary. 

We will not use your information for any other purposes and we will not provide your data to third parties.