What plans it has to compensate patients who have suffered adverse effects of corticosteroids.

The Scottish Executive has no plans to compensate patients who have suffered adverse effects of corticosteroids. The position is that where people have been harmed by clinical treatment they have the right to establish whether there was negligence or defect in the manufacture of a product (either a medicine or medical device). Where negligence or a defective product can be shown to have caused harm, compensation may be paid. In the absence of negligence or a defective product there is no legal liability. Questions of compensation are resolved under the civil law.