General Surgery (FOI_6958)

Freedom of information request details

FOI request date:

Service: Claims Management Cause: Intra-Op Problems, Operator Error Specialty: General Surgery

The following information was requested:

In cases where the primary specialty is ‘General Surgery’ and the causes are ‘Operator Error’ OR ‘Intra-Op Problems’, please supply information between financial years 1994/1995 and 2023/2024 for:

  1. Nature of injuries in successful claims (closed claims with damages paid) in each financial year
  2. Nature of injuries in unsuccessful claims (closed claims with nil damages) in each financial year
  3. Free text incident description field for all successful claims (closed claims with damages paid)
    in each financial year
  4. Free text incident description field for all unsuccessful claims (closed claims with nil
    damages) in each financial year
  5. Total number of claims in each year
  6. Number of closed claims in each year with damages and legal costs paid
  7. Number of closed claims in each year with nil damages paid
  8. Number of open claims

(On 14 January 2025 you clarified)

I am interested in claims data from 2006/07 – 2023/24, and I will look forward to receiving this in due course.

(Please, see attached PDF for further clarification.)

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