Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust (FOI_7777)
The following information was requested:
How much money have you paid to victims/their families for cases at Great Ormond Street
Hospital and what was the category of case (e.g. abuse, negligence)?
Please can you give me a breakdown by year, starting from 2015 or from the earliest you have
this information available?
Please can you also state how many people successfully made claims in those years.
If you have other details – e.g. department, or name of clinician involved, please provide that too.
CNST claims for Imperial College Healthcare NHST intensive care and Anaesthetics (FOI_7775)
The following information was requested:
Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I request the following information relating to clinical negligence claims under the Clinical Negligence Scheme for Trusts (CNST) where the defendant member is Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and the specialty is recorded as Critical Care, Intensive Care, Anaesthetics, or any equivalent classification used in your claims management system.
I request information covering the financial years 2019/20 to 2024/25 inclusive. Where data is not available for the full period, I would welcome disclosure for whichever years are held.
Section 1: Volume of Claims
1. The total number of CNST clinical negligence claims received (opened/notified) against Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust where the specialty is recorded as Critical Care, Intensive Care, or Anaesthetics, broken down by financial year.
2. The total number of such claims closed in each financial year, broken down by:
(a) Claims closed with nil damages paid;
(b) Claims closed with a damages payment.
Section 2: Financial Value of Claims
3. For claims closed with a damages payment in each financial year, the total value of:
(a) Damages paid;
(b) Claimant legal costs paid;
(c) Defence legal costs paid.
Section 3: Primary Cause
4. For claims closed with a damages payment in the above specialties at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust during the period specified, a breakdown by primary cause code (e.g. failure to/delay in treatment, failure to/delay in diagnosis, inadequate nursing care, or whichever cause classifications your system records).
Section 4: Primary Injury
5. For claims closed with a damages payment in the above specialties at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust during the period specified, a breakdown by primary injury code (e.g. unnecessary pain, brain damage, fatality, or whichever injury classifications your system records).
Section 5: Contributory Factors (If Recorded)
6. Where your claims management system records contributory factors or sub-cause categories (such as staffing levels, supervision, handover failures, or skill mix), I request aggregate data on the frequency of such factors for the claims identified above. If this level of detail is not held in a structured format, please confirm that this is the case.
Claims under radiology broken down by cause (FOI_7773)
The following information was requested:
Please can I request an update to FOI_6728.
I would like the last full 5 financial years’ data for claims where the primary specialty is ‘Radiology’, but please limit the response to include claims relating only to Primary Causes from Failure To Interpret X-Ray, Failure/Delay Diagnosis and Fail / Delay Treatment.
Claims relating to Anaesthesia broken down by cause (FOI_7774)
The following information was requested:
In support of a women’s health and environmental piece of proposed research (Xenon/oxygen vs Entonox for maternal analgesia) please may you inform as to the following between 2015 and 2025:
- Total cost of litigation to the NHS relating to the use of both entonox and nitrous oxide initiated by either patients or employees.
- The total number of claims defended by the NHS relating to the use of both entonox and nitrous oxide over the same time period.
(And clarified)
It looks like the code “Anaesthesia” is likely to be the most relevant code please.
Early Notification (FOI_7771)
The following information was requested:
Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I would like to request information relating to the Early Notification Scheme (ENS) for maternity cases since the scheme began.
Specifically, please provide the following aggregated data by year:
- The total number of maternity-related ENS notifications received.
- The mean, median and range of time from notification to interim payment, if any.
- The mean, median and range of time from notification to final settlement.
- The number and percentage of cases in which an interim payment was made.
Download this information request [Information request for Early Notification (FOI_7771)]
Clinical Claims under specialty Obstetrics (FOI_7770)
The following information was requested:
This is a follow up on FOI_7633
I am writing to request the same information disclosed by NHSR as part of FOI ref: FOI_7518, for the following specialty:
1. Obstetrics.
For the above, please provide me with the data disclosed in FOI_7518, in the same format. That includes:
i. The total number of claims settled each year between 2019 to 2025.
ii. The total costs paid as part of the settlements, including damages, claimant and defendant legal costs, compensation, and any other costs covered by the NHS/NHSR. Please also break this data down by year.
Claims arising from slips, trips and falls_FOI_7769
The following information was requested and clarified:
Under the Freedom of information Act 2000 I am requesting the following information regarding clinical negligence claims managed by the NHS resolution: For the last 10 financial years (2015/16 to 2024/25 inclusive), or the most recent 10 year period for which data is available.
1. The total number of clinical negligence claims notified or received where a staff or patient fall (or slip/trip/fall incident) was alleged or recorded and trailing medical leads, cables, tubing, wires, intravenous lines, monitoring equipment cables, or similar trailing connected medical equipment was identified as a contributing factor or cause in the laid description, incident notes, or supporting documentation.
2. If the exact wording above is not searchable via standard codes, please provide the closest available data using any related search terms or categories (e.g.,trip hazards from medical equipment, patient and staff accidents involving cables/tubes/leads, falls due to entanglements with medical devices).
3.For the claims identified in (1) or (2) above, please provide a breakdown by financial year of:
a) Number of claims notified/received per year
b) Number of claims settled settled (with or without admission of liability) per year
c) Total damages/ settlement payouts paid out per year (in GBP)
d) Total legal costs/defence costs incurred by the NHS per year (In GBP) if separately recorded
4. If possible and without disproportionate effort, a high-level indication of a) The number of such claims that proceeded to court (as opposed to settled out of court). b) Any common injury types or outcomes mentioned (eg., fractures, head injuries), aggregated only
CNST claims breakdown by trust (FOI_7767)
The following information was requested:
I am sending this request under the Freedom of Information Act to ask for the following information:
Having read through your annually published data sets on CNST claims I would like a breakdown for these financial years: 2020-21, 2021-22, 2022-23, 2023-24, 2024-25. And I would like it broken down for the listed trusts: please refer to the attached PDF).
For each trust, for each financial year I would like the following information:
a) Total number of CNST Claims
b) Total number of obstetrics CNST claims (you can combine CP/BD and Non CP/BD)
c) Total cost of all CNST Claims (Damages, Legal costs, Claimant costs combined)
d) Total cost of all obstetrics CNST claims (Damages, Legal costs, Claimant costs combined)
