Claims for Anaesthesia care in Maternity and Obstetric (FOI_7590)
The following information was requested:
Please could you provide the following information regarding claims against NHS Trusts pertaining to maternity claims related to anaesthetic care/issues:
1. Number of claims by Trust and year
– The number of claims against NHS Trusts for anaesthesia care in maternity/obstetric claims, broken down by NHS Trust and by financial year.
– Please provide this data for all available financial years.
2. Number of claims by cause and year
– The number of claims against NHS Trusts for anaesthesia care in maternity/obstetric claims, broken down by cause and by financial year.
– Please provide for all available financial years.
3. Number of claims by injury and year
– The number of claims against NHS Trusts for anaesthesia care in maternity/obstetric claims, broken down by cause and by financial year.
– Please provide for all available financial years.
4. Cost of claims by injury and year
– The number of claims against NHS Trusts for anaesthesia care in maternity/obstetric claims, broken down by cause and by financial year.
– Please provide for all available financial years.
5. Any information to the individual cases including coded fields of cause, incident description, free text description fields included with the data, location
6. Cost of claims by Trust and year
– The number and cost of claims against NHS Trusts for anaesthesia care in maternity/obstetric claims, broken down by NHS Trust and financial year. Please include:
– Number of claims
– Damages paid
– NHS legal costs paid
– Claimant legal costs paid
– Total paid
Claims for rheumatology (FOI_7586)
The following information was requested:
I would like to request data relating to claims made in the specialty of rheumatology from financial years 2006/07 up to and including 2023/24. I would like to know:
(i) the number of clinical claims/incidents made per financial year.
(ii) the number of clinical claims closed (or settled as a PPO) per financial year and the associated costs (damages paid, NHS legal costs paid, claimant legal costs paid) incurred per financial year.
(iii) Of all the clinical claims closed/settled during this period (2006/07-2023/24), a breakdown of
the primary causes as well as the costs (damages paid, NHS legal costs paid, claimant legal costs paid) associated with each primary cause.
(iv) the number of unsuccessful (i.e. with nil damages paid) clinical claims during this period (2006/07-2023/24) with their associated NHS legal costs paid and claimant legal costs paid.
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Further details re removal of testicle and amputation (FOI_7583)
The following information was requested:
This is a follow up to FOI_7504.
Thank you for your previous response (FOI 7504). I am writing to make a new, highly specific request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. This request pertains to a very limited set of claims from the financial year 2024/25 for Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust. Based on the data you provided in FOI 7504, I am aware that there were between one and five claims in each of the following categories. My request is confined exclusively to these claims. I request the following for each claim categorised under the following headings:
A. Primary Injury Categories:
• Removal Of Testicle (1-5 claims)
• Amputation – Lower (1-5 claims)
B. Primary Cause Categories:
• Foreign Body Left In Situ (1-5 claims)
• Wrong Site Surgery (1-5 claims)
• Inappropriate Treatment (1-5 claims)
For each of these specific claims, please provide:
• The anonymised Risk Management Sheet, Clinical Governance Learning Summary, or equivalent pre-existing internal document that contains the narrative summary of the incident. This is the standard document created for internal learning and improvement.
• The total damages paid.
• The year the incident occurred.
For context, please also provide the other two categorising aspects:
• For a claim from list A (Primary Injury), please provide its Primary Cause and Clinical Specialty.
• For a claim from list B (Primary Cause), please provide its Primary Injury and Clinical Specialty.
Legal cost data for DAC Beachcroft LPP (FOI_7582)
The following information was requested:
How much was paid to DAC Beachcroft LLP between 2006 and 2024 to defend clinical negligence cases against NHS Trusts?
How many clinical negligence claims did DAC Beachcroft LLP handle in the same period?
Claims re ambulance and fail-delay treatment or diagnosis (FOI_7601)
The following information was requested:
Could I just ask if you have any data available about claims relating to ambulance delays, ideally broken down by year and going back up to five years? I’m happy to piece it together from different reports if you were able to point me in the right direction.
(Please, see attached PDF for clarification.)
Maternity claims_By Trust (FOI_7579)
The following information was requested:
I am writing under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. I would like to request the following
information regarding maternity services and associated clinical negligence claims in England
for the period 1 January 2019 to present.
More specifically:
1. The total number of clinical negligence claims related to maternity services, broken down by
type (maternal deaths, stillbirths, birth injuries) and by NHS Trust.
2. The total amount paid in compensation and legal costs for these claims, broken down by year
and NHS Trust.
I prefer to receive documents in electronic format (PDF or Excel) where possible.
If my request is denied in whole or in part, please justify all exemptions by reference to the Act.
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Healthcare Professional Alert Notices (FOI_7535)
The following information was requested:
Please provide me with the following information relating to Healthcare Professional Alert Notices.
- Please provide me with a list of Healthcare Professional Alert Notices by name, occupation, and hospital for the following years 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023,2024,2025 (to date)
- If it is not possible to identify individuals, please provide me with the number of overall Healthcare Professional Alert Notices anonymised but listed by hospital trust.
- Please provide me with all Healthcare Professional Alert Notices specifically for Northern Care Alliance.
Litigation re accessible healthcare (FOI_7570)
The following information was requested:
I would like to request some information from the NHS Resolution in relation to litigation around accessible healthcare and reasonable adjustments for RNID’s communities, under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
1. In the last five years, how many claims have NHS Resolution received that resulted wholly or partly from a failure of an NHS body to make reasonable adjustments under the Equality Act 2010, to meet the communication needs of a patients who is deaf or has hearing loss, where failure to provide reasonable adjustments has been plead as part of a clinical negligence case? For example, as part of a failure to provide informed consent.
2. In the last five years, how many claims have NHS Resolution received that resulted wholly or partly from a failure of an NHS body to make reasonable adjustments under the Equality Act 2010, where action has been taken against an NHS body under the Equality Act as a direct result of failure to provide reasonable adjustments to a person who is deaf or has hearing loss?
3. In the last five years, how many claims have NHS Resolution received that resulted wholly or partly from a failure of an NHS body to make reasonable adjustments under the Equality Act 2010 to meet the communication needs of communication needs of a patient with a disability, impairment, or sensory loss (as set out in the NHS Accessible Information Standard), where this failure to provide reasonable adjustments has been plead as part of a clinical negligence case? For example, as part of a failure to provide informed consent.
4. In the last five years, how many claims has NHS Resolution received that resulted wholly or partly from a failure of an NHS body to make reasonable adjustments under the Equality Act 2010, where action has been taken against an NHS body under the Equality Act as a direct result of failure to provide reasonable adjustments to a patient with a disability, impairment, or sensory loss (as set out in the NHS Accessible Information Standard)?
5. For 1-4, how many of these claims were upheld and compensation awarded?
6. For 1-4, how much compensation in total was paid for such claims? If it is not possible to provide the information requested due to the information exceeding the cost of compliance limits identified in Section 12, please provide advice and assistance, under the Section 16 obligations of the Act, as to how I can refine my request
