Freedom of information request details
FOI request date:
The following information was requested:
I would be grateful if you could provide the following information (for England):
1. The number of clinical negligence claims made by people in prison (i.e. people held in prison at the time of the alleged negligence), where damages were paid out for the financial years 2020/21, 2021/22, 2022/23, 2023/24, and 2024/25? Please provide the information broken down by financial year. Please also provide what data is available to date (within the FOI time restrictions) for the year 2025/26.
2. The total amount of damages paid in relation to these claims? Please break this down into general damages, special damages and legal costs for each of the financial years in 1 above.
3. For the financial years stated in 1 above, please provide a breakdown of the primary cause of damages, where a claim has been made where a payment(s) was/were made using the cause codes used in the NHS Resolution’s electronic case management system as set out in the ‘Speciality-injury-and-cause-codes.xlsx’ spreadsheet).
4. For the financial years listed in 1 above please confirm which ten NHS Trusts have had the most number of claims made against them by people held in prison (at the time of the alleged negligence), where a payment of damages has been made? For each of these ten trusts please provide (i) the name of the trust, (ii) the number of claims paid out and (iii) the total value of the damages and costs paid out in those claims.
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