In the last three years we have seen consultations by the Department of Health and Social Care to introduce a bespoke fixed recoverable costs regime for lower value clinical negligence claims up to £25,000 that was to introduce wholly different ways of conducting claims (with a 'light track' and 'standard track').  That had been expected to be introduced in October 2024, and then April 2025, but nothing more has been seen. We have since had the introduction of fixed recoverable costs to civil litigation by the Ministry of Justice, which clinical negligence claims can benefit from where admissions of liability are made and where damages do not exceed £100,000. With the costs of clinical negligence rising, and with growing political interest, we may see a renewed (and possibly new) attempt at fixed recoverable costs for lower value clinical negligence claims.