Freedom of Information disclosure log

Clinical scheme for GPs

The following information was requested:

The following requests are made under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. The requests are made in tabular form for ease and I should be grateful if your responses would, where figures are provided, be in the same tabular form.

In respect of each of the NHSR accounting year 19/20 and 20/21, in respect of all clinical scheme for GPs please provide: see table.

Foreign body left in situ & Wrong site

The following information was requested:

1. Please could you provide me with the total number and the total value of claims paid out by the NHSLA for the financial year 2020/2021 where ‘surgical/foreign body left in situ” is one of the grounds for claiming showing damages paid and costs paid.

2. Please also provide the individual amounts of compensation paid for the five biggest awards and please state what the foreign body was?

3. For the last financial year 2020/2021 how much compensation has been paid out in total by the NHSLA as a result of wrong site surgery? (i.e. operating on the right leg instead of the left etc.).

2. For the last financial year 2020/2021 what was the largest single payment made for compensation as a result of wrong site surgery?

3. For the last financial year 2020/2021 what was the total number of claims paid out as a result of compensation for wrong site surgery? Also provide a list giving a brief explanation of each wrong site surgery claim. E.g. wrong eye, wrong knee, wrong kidney etc.

Please note that this question refers to claims paid out in 2020/21 regardless of when the claim was lodged or when the incident took place

Interim payments made prior to settlement

The following information was requested:

1. A total of clinical negligence claims settled by NHSR in 2019 and in 2020

2. How many of these claims had a) full or b) partial admissions

3. How many of the claims referenced in para 1 above had interim payments made prior to settlement

4. How many of the claims referenced in para 2 above had interim payments made prior to
settlement

Under 16 Paediatric and Orthopaedic Surgery

Service: Claims Management Speciality: Orthopaedic Surgery, Paediatric Surgery

The following information was requested:

RE: FOI_3851 please can we have the data for tables 4 and 5 (cause and injury data) in one continuous table, amalgamated for all the years. Separated tables by the specialty Orthopaedic surgery and Paediatric surgery. This will give us better data per code.

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