Freedom of Information disclosure log

Neurology_ Final

Service: Claims Management Speciality: Neurology

The following information was requested:

Please supply me with information regarding clinical negligence claims relating to neurology speciality care for a period from the financial year 2005 until the present.

Please supply me with information regarding clinical negligence claims where a neurologist (either consultant, associated specialist, staff grade and speciality trainee) have been involved as a defendant.

Please provide me with information on:

  • Number of submitted claims
  • Number of settled claims
  • Number of successful and unsuccessful claims
  • List of cause codes
  • List of injury codes
  • Legal costs
  • Damages paid
  • Incident description field
  • Successful / Unsuccessful

Contracts Register

The following information was requested:

The FULL contract register should display all the organisations existing/live contracts I would like the register to display the following columns/headings:

1. Contract Reference -Unique reference number associated with the contract.
2. Contract Title
3. Procurement Category –Please state the category name of the contract, I wish to know the category the contract is under.
4. Supplier Name
5. Spend (Total, Annual or contract value)
6. Contract’s Duration
7. Contract’s Extensions
8. Contract’s Start Date
9. Contract’s Expiry Date
10. Contract Description [Please provide me with as much detail as possible.]
11. Contact Owner (Person that manages the contract register)
12. CPV codes/Pro-Class

Four Individual Trust breakdowns

The following information was requested:

Between January 2018 and May 2022 how much in total did each of these Trusts spend on compensation pay outs, including court costs?

Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust
Medway NHS Foundation Trust
East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust

Could you also provide the number of claims by category and the total amount of compensation for this category since 2018? e.g. ‘inadequate nursing care’ or ‘maternity care’.

Please can the data be broken down by year and NHS Trust?

Fatality Claims

The following information was requested:

1. How many clinical negligence claims involving a fatality were paid out in the 2020/21 financial years?

2. What was the total amount of damages paid in relation to these claims?

3. For the financial year 2020/21, please provide a breakdown of the cause of death, where a claim has been made of negligence involving the death and a payout was made to the claimant?

4. In 2020/21 which ten NHS Trusts have had the most number of claims made against them for fatality where a payout has been made? For each of these ten trusts please provide (i) the name of the trust, (ii) the number of fatality claims paid out and (iii) the total value of the damages paid out in those claims.

NOTE: Please note that this question relates to the year in which the claim was settled, not the year the incident happened or the year the claim was lodged.

Cerebral Palsy – Brain Damage (FOI_5418)

The following information was requested:

Please provide:

a) the total paid by all trusts under the Clinical negligence scheme for trusts (CNST) for the past 5 years (2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021) and
b) the total paid by all trusts under the Clinical negligence scheme for trusts (CNST) for the past 5 years (2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021) which related to birth injury.

[Clarified on 9 May]
Having taken a look at the response (5367) you shared, we would be interested in having the claims stats that relate to injury code ‘Cerebral Palsy’ for the past five years. To be clear, we are not interested in this information broken down by trust, CCG or IS, we just want the totals for England.

As you set out in response 5367 we would like the data to cover the number of claims received in the past five years; a breakdown by specialty; a breakdown by primary injury; numbers settled with associated costs; numbers with no damages paid and numbers currently open.

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