Coronavirus or Covid-19
The following information was requested:
1. The number of negligence claims that include the words coronavirus/Covid 19 since January 2020 to the most recently available month please.
2. A brief categorisation of the claim i.e. wrong medication/ failure to treat for the above numbers please.
3. The number of claims relating to coronavirus that have already been settled, with the approximate total cost of those settlements.
4. The number of unsettled claims relating to corona virus that are awaiting settlement or rejection.
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Adobe
The following information was requested:
1. Do you currently use any form of electronic signing tool?
2. If yes, who is your current provider? When does the contract expire? How much does it cost per year? How many licences (users or transactions) do you have?
3. How many documents do you send for signature / approval annually? What % are printed?
4. Are your signing processes primarily paper-based?
5. What is your current annual spend on paper, postage and document storage?
6. Do you currently have any active projects or initiatives aimed at reducing the amount of paper-based processes?
7. If so, who is leading it?
8. How much employee time is it taking to create, send, chase and store documents that require signature?
9. How many employees do you have?
10. What percentage of employees work remotely?
11. Can you provide names and contact details for the following people within your organisation?
1. CIO / IT Director
2. Head of IT
3. Head of Digital Transformation
4. Head of Housing Operations
5. Head of Legal
6. Head of HR
7. Head of Legal Services
12. Do you currently use any of the following Microsoft applications?
1. O365
2. SharePoint
3. Teams
4. Dynamics
5. Power Automate
13. Do you use any Adobe products? If yes, which ones?
14. What primary software systems do you use? (Deployed Systems, Product Name, Vendor, Version, Contract end date & Number of licenses)
1. Human Resources
2. Patient related
3. Legal Services
4. Email and Collaboration
15. Do you have a Senior Information Risk Officer (SIRO) and Caldicott Guardian? If so, can you please share their contact name, email and phone number.
16. Understanding that every member of the NHS has to be GDPR compliant, what is the current approval – signature process?
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Hip Surgery
The following information was requested:
I am trying to locate your list of Claims relating to Hip surgery to ascertain if my potential claim has a precedent.
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Out of time claims
The following information was requested:
I wanted to know if the NHS has received any out of time medical negligence cases and from them how many it settled given that they were out of time.
I’m not really bothered about the time period for the search but if you need one. No longer than the last 20 years.
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Advice Service data relating to NHS Foundation Trusts in England
The following information was requested:
With respect to data held under the role of Practitioner Performance Advice Service (formally known as NCAS) and data relating to NHS Foundation Trusts in England.
Please provide annual figures for the last 5 completed years:
1. the total annual numbers of new cases submitted (or discussed) under the MHPS (Maintaining High Professional Standards) process
2. the number of organisations and the average number per organisation
3. list of organisations and submissions per year
4. for each year a break-down of the grade of the doctors per organisation
5. the outcome of the referral:
- number of referrals resulting in advice only
- number of referrals resulting in assessments undertaken by the PPAS
- number of referrals when the employer has failed to he[e]d [sic] the advice
6. the average time to resolution
7. the annual number of cases upheld (under MHPS)
Cauda Equina Syndrome
The following information was requested:
I would like to put in a Freedom of Information request for case and compensation data for Cauda Equina Syndrome from 1995 until now. Could you please confirm if you have a prescribed form for the same and the best way to apply.
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Trusts who carry out Neurosurgery
The following information was requested:
As part of the presentation we will need to identify how we compare against other Trusts who carry out neurosurgery.
Could you kindly provide a breakdown of:
• The number of claims received for the 2019/20 and 2020/21
• The total cost of claims for the same financial years
This would need to be for the following hospitals:
1. Barking, Havering, Redbridge University Hospitals
2. Barts Health
3. Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals
4. Cambridge University Hospitals
5. Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals
6. Imperial College Healthcare
7. King’s College Hospital
8. Lancashire Teaching Hospitals
9. Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals
10. North Bristol
11. Nottingham University Hospitals
12. Oxford University Hospitals
13. Plymouth Hospitals
14. Salford Royal
15. Sheffield Teaching Hospitals
16. South Tees Hospitals
17. St George’s University Hospitals
18. The Leeds Teaching Hospitals
19. The Walton Centre
20. UCL Hospitals
21. University Hospital Birmingham
22. University hospital of North Staffordshire
23. University Hospital Southampton
24. University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire
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Fatality Claims
The following information was requested:
1. How many clinical negligence claims involving a fatality were paid out in each of the following financial years? (i) 2015/16, (ii) 2016/17, (iii) 2017/18), (iv) 2018/19 and (v) 2019/20.
2. For each financial year what was the total amount of damages paid?
3. For each financial year what was the highest single claim settled for a fatality claim?
4. For the financial year 2019/20, 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?
5. For the last five years of claims 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 in the five-year period and (iii) the total value of the damages paid out in those claims.
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