Request on Obstetrics Claims (FOI_7860)
The following information was requested:
I am looking for some updated figures for obstetrics claims. It’s an update to figures we already have received from you, but I can’t attach the pdf to this website.
Relating to the period 2022/23 up until the most recent figures available:
– Number of Clinical Claims and/or Incidents received for Nottingham University Hospital NHS Trust, where the Specialty is ‘Obstetrics’.
– Number and Cost of Clinical Claims Closed with a damages payment or Settled with a periodical payment order for Nottingham University Hospital NHS Trust, where the Specialty is ‘Obstetrics’. Breakdown by year. The data includes the damages and legal costs paid up until the end of each relevant financial year of closure, or for PPO matters, year of settlement.
– Number and Cost of Clinical Claims Closed with a NIL damages payment for Nottingham University Hospital NHS Trust, where the Specialty is ‘Obstetrics’. Breakdown by year. The data includes the legal costs paid up until the end of each relevant financial year of closure.
– Number and Cost of Clinical Claims Closed with a damages payment or Settled with a periodical payment order for Nottingham University Hospital NHS Trust, where the Specialty is ‘Obstetrics.’ Breakdown by primary cause. The data includes the damages and legal costs paid up until the end of each relevant financial year of closure, or for PPO matters, year of settlement.
– Number and Cost of Clinical Claims Closed with a damages payment or Settled with a periodical payment order for Nottingham University Hospital NHS Trust, where the Specialty is ‘Obstetrics’. Breakdown by primary injury. The data includes the damages and legal costs paid up until the end of each relevant financial year of closure, or for PPO matters, year of settlement.
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Claims relating to plastic and orthopaedic surgery_FOI_7861
The following information was requested and clarified:
I am writing to request information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
Please could you provide information regarding clinical negligence claims relating to elective hand and wrist surgery within NHS Trusts in England.
Where “hand surgery” is not recorded as a standalone specialty, I would be grateful if this request could include claims recorded under Plastic Surgery and Trauma & Orthopaedics, where available descriptors (e.g. primary injury, cause, or other coding fields) indicate involvement of the hand or wrist.
A. Overall dataset (elective hand/wrist claims)
1) Number of claims by year
Number of claims notified, broken down by financial year
Please provide for all available financial years (e.g. 2006/07–present)
2) Number of claims by primary cause and year
Number of claims broken down by:
Primary cause
Financial year
3) Number of claims by primary injury and year
Number of claims broken down by:
Primary injury
Financial year
4) Cost of claims by year (closed claims with damages)
Number and cost of claims, broken down by financial year
Please include:
Number of claims
Damages paid
NHS legal costs paid
Claimant legal costs paid
Total paid
5) Cost of claims by primary cause
Number and cost of claims (as above), broken down by:
Primary cause
Financial year
6) Cost of claims by primary injury
Number and cost of claims (as above), broken down by:
Primary injury
Financial year
7) Claims closed with nil damages
Number and cost of claims closed with nil damages, broken down by:
Financial year
Primary cause
Primary injury (if available)
B. Procedure-level dataset (key elective hand procedures)
If procedure-level or descriptor-based filtering is available, I would be grateful if you could:
8) Identify procedures
Identify the five most commonly represented elective hand surgery procedures by number of claims within the dataset
9) Procedure-level breakdowns
For each of these five procedures, please provide:
a) Claim volume
Number of claims notified, by financial year
b) Primary cause
Number of claims by primary cause and financial year
c) Primary injury
Number of claims by primary injury and financial year
d) Costs (closed claims with damages)
Number and cost of claims, by financial year, including:
Damages paid
NHS legal costs paid
Claimant legal costs paid
Total paid
e) Costs by cause
Number and cost of claims, by primary cause and financial year
f) Costs by injury
Number and cost of claims, by primary injury and financial year
g) Nil-damages claims (if available)
Number and cost of claims closed with nil damages
C. Clarifications
Please provide data for all available financial years (e.g. 2006/07 to most recent available year)
I understand that:
Cells with fewer than 5 may be suppressed
Claims may appear across multiple years if reopened
Notification and closure years may differ
D. Cost limit / refinement
Practitioner Performance Advice cases_type of concern and where they qualified_FOI_7859
The following information was requested:
I am interested in this analysis you produced in 2023 and want to update the numbers.
My FOI request is:
In each of the last two years, what number and proportion of Practitioner Performance Advice cases involving Behaviour/misconduct or other clinical or health concerns have involved practitioners who qualified a) in the UK, b) outside the UK in the EEA c) outside the EEA?
In each of the last two years, what number and proportion of Practitioner Performance Advice cases involving Behaviour/misconduct or other clinical or health concerns have involved practitioners from each different ethnic minority group?
Ophthalmology claims for Independent Sector Providers (FOI_7857)
The following information was requested:
I request the following information in respect of clinical negligence claims under the CNST (and
any successor or equivalent scheme) where the responsible provider is an independent sector
provider (ISP) — that is, a non-NHS organisation — and the specialty is ophthalmology:
1. The total number of ophthalmology claims notified/received by NHS Resolution from ISP
members, broken down by financial year, for each year from 2013/14 (when ISPs
became eligible for CNST membership) to the most recent year for which complete data
is available.
2. For each financial year specified above, the number of ophthalmology claims from ISP
members that were:
• closed with a damages payment;
• closed with nil damages; and
• still open/outstanding at the end of each year.
3. For closed ophthalmology claims from ISP members in each financial year: the total
damages paid, total NHS legal costs, total claimant legal costs, and total combined cost.
4. The number of ISP organisations that are current members of the CNST in respect of
ophthalmology services, and the total number of ISP CNST members in ophthalmology
that have had at least one clinical negligence claim notified against them since 2013/14.
5. If data is available: a breakdown of ISP ophthalmology claims by procedure type or
subspecialty (e.g. cataract surgery, refractive surgery, vitreoretinal, medical retina,
glaucoma) for any year or period for which such coding exists.
6. If a full breakdown by individual ISP organisation is not possible due to low numbers
(fewer than 5 claims) attracting Data Protection exemptions under s.40(2) FOI Act,
please provide aggregate ISP totals (i.e. all ISP members combined) and indicate which
individual ISP rows have been suppressed.
Comparator Data
To contextualise the above, I also request, for the same period:
7. The equivalent aggregate figures (claims notified, claims closed with/without payment,
total costs) for ophthalmology claims from NHS Trust members of the CNST, broken
down by financial year from 2013/14.
8. For context, the approximate proportion of NHS-funded ophthalmology activity (by
procedure volume) attributable to ISP members versus NHS Trust members, if held by
NHS Resolution or readily available to it.
Clinical negligence claim broken down by cause (FOI_7855)
The following information was requested:
This request is a follow up to FOI_7801
I would be grateful if you could respond to the remaining questions, which are:
- Please provide any internal reports, analyses, or documents produced in the last five years that discuss the distinction between individual error and systemic failure in clinical negligence claims.
- Please provide any internal reports, analyses, or documents produced in the last five years that discuss the relationship between clinician burnout, staffing pressures, or workload and clinical negligence claims.
Additionally, please provide a breakdown of clinical negligence claims by cause for each of the last five financial years.
Recruitment for climate related posts_FOI_7852
The following information was requested:
Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, please provide the following recorded information.
From the last 3 financial year’s budgeted figures (2022/23, 23/24, 24/25)
1. Climate-related posts
a) The number of posts if any (headcount, and FTE where recorded) employed with job titles that include any of the following terms:
Climate; Net Zero; Sustainability; Carbon; Emissions; Environmental Sustainability; Climate Change; Climate Action; Climate Policy; Climate Programme; Climate Project; Climate Data; Climate Reporting; Climate Adaptation; Climate Resilience; Energy and Climate; Sustainable Procurement; Green Finance; Green.
2. Cost of those posts
The total employment cost for the posts (if any) identified in Question 1, including salary and employer on-costs (e.g. pension and National Insurance), as recorded.
3. External consultants
The total amount paid during the same financial year to external consultants, companies, or contractors where the expenditure is recorded under any cost centre, project code, budget line, or purchase description that includes one or more of the following terms:
Climate; Net Zero; Sustainability; Carbon; Emissions; Environmental Sustainability; Climate Change; Climate Action; Climate Policy; Climate Programme; Climate Project; Climate Data; Climate Reporting; Climate Adaptation; Climate Resilience; Energy and Climate; Sustainable Procurement; Green Finance; Green.
This should include, but not be limited to, expenditure coded to professional services, consultancy, advisory services, or specialist support.
If you do not record expenditure in this way, please provide the closest equivalent recorded information held (for example, totals by relevant cost centre or project).
If any information requested is not held, please state this clearly. If figures are held only in aggregated form, please provide the aggregated figures. Estimates derived from recorded financial information are acceptable.
Claims with damages payment – medians and quantiles (FOI_7851)
The following information was requested:
Follow up to: FOI_7555
NHSR previously provided the attached information on average damages for clinical claims in 2024/25. For your reference, please see the final page of the attached document.
For these clinical negligence claims closed (or settled with a periodical payment order) in 2024/25 with a damages payment, would you also please be able to provide the following:
- The median amount of damages provided in these claims
- In terms of the damages provided in these claims, the amount which was provided at the 25th quantile
- In terms of the damages provided in these claims, the amount which was provided at the 75th quantile.
Claims involving St Lawrence Surgery Goring-by-Sea West Sussex_FOI_7835
The following information was requested:
I am writing to request the following information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000:
The total number of clinical negligence claims submitted to NHS Resolution involving St Lawrence Surgery, Goring-by-Sea, Worthing, West Sussex, under the Clinical Negligence Scheme for General Practice (CNSGP) since the scheme’s inception in April 2019.
The number of those claims that resulted in a settlement or damages payment.
The total value of any settlements or damages paid, even if provided as a banded or anonymised figure.
