Freedom of Information disclosure log

Breast Surgery

The following information was requested:

For the period January 2011 to Feb 2022, may I please have the following information regarding breast surgery claims (including claims that were settled out of court and those settled in court :

Number of breast surgery claims broken down by the type of surgery for example, breast reduction, breast enlargement.

Please state the harm or alleged harm that was caused that the above claims were based on, for example, scarring, nipple misplacement, lack of informed consent, psychological/mental trauma/damage

Anaesthesia

Service: Claims Management Speciality: Anaesthesia

The following information was requested:

I am compiling information on claims made against anesthetists and wondered if you could provide some information to this effect? I am looking for data from the past 5 years in the first instance. How might I apply for this information?

[on 23 February 2022]
We hold information about claims relating to the specialty:  Anaesthesia
We also hold information about claims relating to the injury code:  Anaesthetic

We can provide you with high level data relating to the above codes. It could cover the number claims received for each code. The number that was settled with nil damages paid. Number settled with damages paid (with associated costs). Breakdown by
primary cause recorded in the Claims Management System.
Please let us know if you would be interested in this information?

Please, that sounds great!

Cataract providers

The following information was requested:

I have been told that complaints/litigation against independent sector cataract providers are much higher than against traditional NHS Hospital eye services. Is this actually true? Do you have any figures on this? If not do you know how I could get figures on this?

General Surgery and Consent

Service: Claims Management Speciality: General Surgery

The following information was requested:

I am currently doing a.. project looking into the changes in the number of medicolegal cases related to consent made against general surgery between 2010-2020. Under the Freedom of
Information act, could I request data on the litigation/law suits made against general surgery related to consent, which includes what procedure/surgery each of these cases involved.

High-level data held on ‘General Surgery’ and ‘Consent’

Staff Survey

The following information was requested:

Please disclose all your staff survey reports for the years
– 2019
– 2020
– 2021

Please also disclose what organisational learning has taken place and what corrective action if any has been taken as a result of the staff survey data from these three years.

Please provide the relevant HR/ organisational development reports relating to any such plans or action taken.

ICT strategy

The following information was requested:

I wish to obtain the following documents:

1. ICT/IM&T/IS Strategy- The IT department strategy or plans, highlights their current and future objectives.
2. ICT Org Chart- A visual document that presents the structure of the IT department, please include name and job titles. If this cannot be sent, please work towards a structure with job titles.
3. ICT Annual or Business Plan- Like the ICT strategy but is more annually focused.
4. ICT Capital Programme/budget- A document that shows financials budget on current and future projects.

If some of these documents are not valid, please state when the 2021 onwards ICT documents are planned to be published.

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