Acute General Medicine
The following information was requested:
Thank you for the information you provided [FOI_5000], it is greatly appreciated and will really assist our clinicians. Could you kindly send me the exact same but for Acute/General Medicine?
[FOI_5000]
It would need to be just ED claims please as that is the audience that we are giving the talk to.
Ideally we want to compare against Trusts who have a similar volume of patients through their ED but I don’t know if you have that sort of data so failing that it would help to have a
comparison against Trust’s in our region (Birmingham, Nottingham, Leicester, Oxford).
Your suggestion of a top 15 number of claims received for Emergency Medicine covering both volume of claims and including damages paid would help the clinicians understand where we find ourselves in comparison.
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United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust
The following information was requested:
Please can you provide the number of court and out-of-court settlements (specifying which is which) issued by United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust (ULHT) between 2018 to 2020? I initially put this FOI request into ULHT, who informed me this will need sent to you as you hold
the data.
If this can please be broken down by what the settlement was for and how much was paid out by the trust (both to the complainant and in legal fees)?
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General Surgery
The following information was requested:
I’m planning on writing an academic paper regarding medicolegal claims in General Surgery over the last 10 years or so, and I understand you are part of the team to contact in order to obtain records for this in England….
I’m attempting to obtain the 2010-2020 (inclusive) data for general surgery medicolegal claims against the NHS in England. Obviously I don’t need specific identifying details; only the basic operation /circumstances, age, claim details, outcome / payout. That sort of data. The aim is to publish a reasonably contemporaneous retrospective review of the common operations and complications or other reasons for medicolegal claims to be brought against the NHS, so that
we may publish in a peer reviewed medical journal and attempt to raise awareness +/- change practice if possible with this knowledge in mind.
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Emergency Medicine
The following information was requested:
It would need to be just ED claims please as that is the audience that we are giving the talk to.
Ideally we want to compare against Trusts who have a similar volume of patients through their ED but I don’t know if you have that sort of data so failing that it would help to have a
comparison against Trust’s in our region (Birmingham, Nottingham, Leicester, Oxford).
Your suggestion of a top 15 number of claims received for Emergency Medicine covering both volume of claims and including damages paid would help the clinicians understand where we find ourselves in comparison.
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Falling from operating table
The following information was requested:
I was wondering how would I go about finding out number of datix incidents raised from patients falling from operating table in the NHS.
I am a doctor and would like to see if I could write a paper on this topic to help create a conversation towards preventing this never event from happening.
[On 18th March 2021]
Yes, I would like to get an overall picture for all of the trust that are members of the claims scheme. I am looking to get either claims relating to patient’s falling from bed or number of incidents that have been recorded via DATIX through Trusts.
My ideas is to find out number of incidents/claims over 5-10 years, type of injury to patient, patient demographics, which specialties involved, claims successful , changes implemented etc.
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Sarcoma
The following information was requested:
1.
Number of complaints and actions for compensation for clinical negligence for the period from 2016 to 2020, broken down for each year by NHS Resolution stage:
covering misdiagnosis or delayed diagnosis of sarcoma:
of children in general practice
of adults in general practice
of children in hospital trusts
of adults in hospital trusts
2.
Total compensation paid and costs incurred at each settlement stage during the same five-year period for:
misdiagnosis or delayed diagnosis of sarcoma:
of children in general practice
of adults in general practice
of children in hospital trusts
of adults in hospital trusts
3.
For the cases identified in General Practice above we would like to see a breakdown by each of the five years 2016-2020 of cause for complaint (all patients) as follows:
Dismissal or misdiagnosis, where patient later then presents to A&E
Failure or delay in requesting tests/scans (NICE Guidance)
Interfering surgically with a tumour
Delayed referral to secondary/tertiary care (outside the 2-Wk Wait protocol)
Referral to secondary care outside NICE/Commissoning guidelines
Any other cause
Where two or more causes are quoted please note detail.
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Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery
The following information was requested:
The information requested is:
1. Total number of claims in Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery from 2004-2020 shown annually
2. Total number of successful claims in Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery from 2004-2020
shown annually
3. Total number of unsuccessful claims in Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery from 2004-2020
shown annually
4. Claims currently open in Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery from 2004-2020 shown annually
5. Sum of damages paid to the claimant in Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery from 2004-2020
6. Sum of defence in Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery from 2004-2020
7. Claimant costs paid in Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery from 2004-2020
8. Claim type in Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery from 2004-2020
9. Time to settlement in Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery from 2004-2020
10. Summary of claim in Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery from 2004-2020 (wrong-site surgery, wrong implant, diagnostic inaccuracy etc)
11. Number of claims settled out of court and number settled in court in Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery from 2004-2020
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Whistleblowing
The following information was requested:
1. How many reports did you receive from whistleblowers in 2019 and in 2020?
2. How many people do you have in your organisation that are trained/permitted to take reports from whistleblowers?
3. What training have the people in question number 2 received in whistleblowing?
4. What cost, if any, was there for this training?
5. Which organisation delivered each course?
6. What is the name of the person that arranged this training and what is their email address?
7. What methods do you have for whistleblowers to contact a person that is authorised to take their report and what are the specific details of these, i.e., email addresses, telephone numbers etc?
8. What are the email addresses for the people authorised to receive whistleblower reports?
9. How many whistleblowers have left the organisation within 12 months of making a report?
10. How many whistleblowers have made an allegation of ‘detriment’ against your organisation?
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