Claims relating to fail to warn – informed consent (FOI_7651)

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Service: Claims Management Cause: Fail To Warn-Informed Consent

The following information was requested and clarified:

Specifically, I would like to request the number of clinical negligence claims with a primary cause of “Fail to warn – Informed consent” received between the financial years 2015/16 and 2025/26 broken down as follows:

• By year
• By age of subject – paediatric (<18), adult (≥18), deceased (such as consent to the use of pre-harvested gametes, if applicable), other
• By category – medical, surgical, other (specify if another distinct category)
• By specialty for surgical claims
• By outcome – whether clinical negligence was confirmed (duty of care breached) or disputed (duty of care upheld)

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