Wales Claims
The following information was requested:
Please provide a breakdown of the number of, and value of, damages payments made in the last ten years relating to failings in maternity care at the following health boards in Wales (please see pdf. file).
Where possible please provide a brief categorisation of what each claim related to (e.g. stillbirth, death of mother, birth defect etc).
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Obstetrics broken down by individual Trust
The following information was requested:
I would like a to know:
The amount each NHS has paid out in negligence claims over the last ten years (1 April 2011 to 31st March 2022), per year, and in each of the above case whether the claim related to
a) death of a mother
b) death of a baby
c) still birth or
d) a baby born with brain damage or cerebral palsy.
Grants
The following information was requested:
Under the Freedom of Information Act, please could I request the following information: I am particularly interested in grants which I consider to be a fund given by an end entity, often a public body, to an individual or another entity for a specific purpose linked to public benefit. I am interested in all grants, which can be viewed here.
1. Please can you provide a list of all grants distributed between 2020/2021 and 2021/2022, including information on the following:
a. Name of grant
b. Type of grant
c. Grant value
d. Volume of grants awarded
2. How many Full Time Equivalents (FTE’s) did you employ to administer and process grants, and what was the cost in 2020/2021 and 2021/2022?
3. What technology system/s do you use to administer/process grants, and how much was spent on this technology in 2020/2021 and 2021/2022?
4. What was the development time required to create your most recent grant product/scheme?
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Failure to warn – informed consent
The following information was requested:
I would like to look at the number of claims (and costs) per year related to “failure to warn – informed consent” in the last 10 years. I would like to have the data broken down to specialties and hospitals – would it please be possible to obtain this data?
Is it possible to classify these by year also and obtain a breakdown of settlement cost per year also, please?
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Dentistry and Oral and Maxillofacial surgery
The following information was requested:
Follow up to FOI_5397
Thank you very much for your help on my previous FOI request.
I wonder if it is possible to obtain the finalised data that you mentioned would be available from August.
Mental Health Claims
The following information was requested:
Follow up to FOI_4861
Thank you for the data you sent me.
The information you sent me doesn’t tell me very much. I’d like to know more than just numbers.
I don’t understand why you can’t search the word bipolar.
I’d like to know the following
1. the nature of the complaint
2. was the complaint successful
3. how much was awarded in compensation
4. who the legal representatives for the complainant were
In brief has anyone complained about wrong diagnoses of mental health followed by late diagnoses and was there compensation.
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Top 10 legal firms with most claimant costs
The following information was requested:
All questions relates to the clinical negligence scheme (CNST)
- In the 2021-2022 financial year please state which ten legal firms received the most money from the NHSLA in relation to claimant costs for the clinical negligence scheme (CNST) ? For each of the ten firms please state how much money they received in relation to claimant costs for the clinical negligence scheme (CNST) in the financial year? For each firm also please state how many claims this represents, and the damages that were paid in these cases.
- In total how much money was paid in legal costs in 2021/22 and how this was divided between NHSLA legal costs and claimants’ legal costs? How does this total figure compare with previous years’ figures?
- What was the biggest settlement to a legal firm in respect of claimant’s legal costs for a single case that was settled in 2021/22? For that case please state the amount of damages paid, the claimant’s costs and the name of the legal firm in question and the NHSLA ‘S legal costs associated with the case. Please state if the case was settled following a court hearing or not and what the injury was that the patient suffered from.
- In relation to only those cases that were settled in the 2021/22 financial year and the claimant damages paid were in excess of £100,000, which single case saw the biggest claimant’s legal costs as a multiple of the claimant’s damages? For that case please state the amount of damages paid, the claimant’s costs and the name of the legal firm in question and the NHSLA ‘S legal costs associated with the case.
- In relation to only those cases that were settled in the 2021/22 financial year and the claimant damages paid were in excess of £1,000, which single case saw the biggest claimant’s legal costs as a multiple of the claimant’s damages? For that case please state the amount of damages paid, the claimant’s costs and the name of the legal firm in question and the NHSLA ‘S legal costs associated with the case.
Note: In relation to Q.4 and Q.5 I am after the biggest multiple. So costs of £600,000 on a case settled for £150,000 damages would be x4, and bigger than costs of £2m in a case settled for £1m which would be x2. Also note I have dropped a request for the nature of the injury so as not to fall within the scope of S.40.
Claims Settled for named Trusts
The following information was requested:
the number of Clinical Negligence claims settled for the period 2017 to 2022 against the data range submitted by similar sized organisations.
Please benchmark against the following Trusts:
1. Royal Surrey Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (NHS FT)
2. Epsom & St Helier University Hospitals
3. Surrey & Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust
4. University Hospital Southampton
5. Oxford University Hospital
6. East Kent Hospitals University NHS FT
7. Stoke Mandeville Hospital
8. University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust
9. Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
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