[IN THE COUNTY COURT AT [insert]ORIN THE HIGH COURT] Claim No: Parties: [Insert name of Claimant] Claimant and [Insert name of Defendant NHS Trust] Defendant ____________________________________________________________________________ PARTICULARS OF CLAIM ____________________________________________________________________________ 1 This is a claim for personal injuries arising from clinical negligence. 2 At all material times: 2.1 The Defendant owned, managed and administered the E F Hospital (“the Hospital”) pursuant to the provisions of the National Health Service Acts and provided, through its employees, servants and agents, medical, specialist and other services to patients; 2.2 The Claimant was the Defendant’s patient. The Defendant’s duties 3 The Defendant owed the following duties to the Claimant: 3.1 A direct, non-delegable duty to ensure that reasonable care was taken at all times in relation to the care with which the Claimant was provided; 3.2 A duty to take reasonable care to ensure that there was a safe system of health care within the Hospital; 3.3 In respect of the care provided by the those employees, servants and agents of the Defendant professing clinical knowledge and skills, a duty that they would provide care to the level expected of a reasonable member of that