Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (FOI_7533)
The following information was requested:
Please provide me with the information below regarding claims settled and claims received for Northern Care Alliance.
– Claims settled and received for gynaecology (non-obstetric) by calendar year from 2015 to 2025 (to date), please include data separated by cause code and injury code.
– Outcomes of any Maintaining High Professional Standards investigations relating to
gynaecology at Northern Care Alliance. If possible, to provide summaries for the investigation findings and recommendations.
– Claims settled and received for renal by calendar year from 2015 to 2025 (to date), please include data separated by cause code and injury code.
– Claims settled and received for respiratory by calendar year from 2015 to 2025 (to date), please include data separated by cause code and injury code.
IT systems (FOI_7530)
The following information was requested:
Under the Freedom of Information Act, I would like to request information about the main digital systems currently used within your organisation.
Please provide a list of the main clinical, administrative, and corporate systems, excluding:
standard desktop software (e.g. Microsoft Office, Outlook/email, web browsers), locally created spreadsheets, templates, or databases maintained by individual teams.
Attached is a spreadsheet for completion, for each system, please provide on a new row (where available):
- System name
- Supplier/vendor
- Primary purpose / category (choose from: PAS, EPR/Clinical Records, Radiology, Pharmacy, PLICS, Finance, HR/Workforce, Risk & Governance, Other).
If a system doesn’t fit one of the listed categories, please use “Other” and provide a short note.
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Organised Activity Reports (FOI_7527)
The following information was requested:
[With reference to our response to FOI 7481] If you cannot provide the summaries please provide all 18 organisational activity reports.
We understand you are requesting the Organisational Activity Reports (OARs) delivered to 18 secondary care trusts in 2024/25.
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Maternity claims & Obstetrics (FOI_7525)
The following information was requested:
Last year you provided a response to a FoI enquiry relating to compensation for obstetrics care [Ref: FoI 6534]. In that response you provided a number of tables. Could you now supply me with updated tables but ONLY in relation to tables, 2,3, 6 and 7.
Copy of FOI_6534 is available here: FOI_6534.
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Oncology (FOI_7524)
The following information was requested and clarified:
Thank you for your clarification regarding the information NHS Resolution holds.
I understand that NHS Resolution does not record specific medication types, including
pembrolizumab, in your claims database.
I would still like to proceed with the broader data you have offered.
Please provide the following for each of the past 5 financial years (2019/20 to 2023/24, or the most recent 5-year period available):
All claims coded under the “Oncology” specialty, specifically those involving the following serious injury codes:
• #39 – Fatality
• #8 – Anaphylact Shock/Allergic Shock/allergy
• #104 – Respiratory Disorder/Failure
• #65 – Liver Damage
• #103 – Renal Damage/Failure
• #21 – Cardiac Arrest
• #22 – Cardiovascular Condition
• #121 – Thyroid Condition
• #16 – Bowel Damage/Dysfunction
• #109 – Sepsis
• #80 – Nerve Damage
• #17 – Brain Damage
I understand that this data will include claims related to various cancer treatments and
medications, not just pembrolizumab.
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CNSGP Claims (FOI_7518)
The following information was requested:
1. An annual breakdown of the total cost of clinical negligence claims made under the Clinical Negligence Scheme for General Practice (CNSGP) from 2019 to 2025. Please break this data down by year (either in financial years or calendar years, depending on how the information is held. Financial years would be preferred). By total costs I mean: damages, legal costs of the defendant and claimant, compensation, settlement payments, and any other such costs linked to the clinical negligence claims.
2. If this data can be broken down by geographical region, please do so (East of England, Yorkshire and the Humber, etc.).
3. A breakdown of the data by the source of the costs, explicating in each year how much was paid out in damages, legal costs of the defendant and claimant, compensation, etc.
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Specified Causes (FOI_7522)
The following information was requested:
They would like to know the volume of claims notified to NHSR in the last 5 years that have the following codes:
- Medication error
- Failure / delay in treatment
- Failure to carry out PO observations
- Bacterial infection
- Failure to act on abnormal test results
- Failure to perform tests
- Failure / delay in diagnosis
- Inadequate nursing care
- Inappropriate treatment
- Lack of assistance / care
Include the costs of the closed claims for this period of time.
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Blood cancer diagnosis (FOI_7515)
The following information was requested:
I am working on a research project looking at the use of machine learning and artificial intelligence for improving efficiency, quality and consistency of blood cancer diagnosis. Blood cancers include leukaemia, lymphoma and myeloma.
These conditions are diagnosed by combining information from a variety of different tests, performed largely at tertiary centres within a specialist integrated haematological malignancy diagnostic service (SIHMDS) although secondary centres carry out some diagnostic testing locally. The number of tests and volume of diagnostic output have increased significantly over the last decade. This requires clinicians to constantly update their knowledge based on new evidence in order to not only arrive at the right diagnosis but also provide the right information on treatment and prognosis to patients. As part of the health economics calculations, It would be really helpful to have information if possible on –
1. Average annual medicolegal costs relating to delays in blood cancer diagnosis at secondary/ tertiary centres
2. Average annual medicolegal costs relating to misdiagnosis of blood cancer at secondary/ tertiary centres
3. Year on year medicolegal costs over the last decade relating to delays or misdiagnosis of blood cancers at secondary/tertiary centres.
Figures for each of these points would be sufficient but any further details that can be provided for e.g. on the type of blood cancer would be very welcome.
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