Mesothelioma – Asbestos Exposure (FOI_6836)
The following information was requested:
Follow up to – FOI_6801.
Could I now ask for you to expand the request to include every financial year between 2010/11 and 2024/25 (so far)?
The request in full would therefore read:
‘I would like to request the number of compensation payouts to both NHS staff and former NHS staff related to asbestos in each financial year between 2010/11 and 2024/25 (so far). I would also like to request the total amount paid in compensation related to asbestos in each of those years.’
Average payments for each clinical speciality (FOI_6835)
The following information was requested:
Please provide the national average payments separately for damages and costs in respect of each clinical speciality over each of the last 5 years including the number of claims.
Please provide a breakdown of the average payments per trust.
Please also identify how many cases nationally are paid due to failure to gain sufficient evidence/failure to meet time to resolution requirements for each year (specifically looking at surgical cases if possible).
(Please, see attached PDF for further clarification.)
Spend with external law firms (FOI_6828)
The following information was requested:
Could you please send me the following information:
• What is your spend with external law firms (please provide for the last 4 financial years)?
• Do you use eBilling technology to manage your law firms billing (e.g. systems such as Legal Tracker, Brightflag, Apperio, CT Tymetrix, Mitratech etc.)?
• Who is your Head of Legal or General Counsel?
• Who is your Head of Procurement?
• Do you have a law firm panel / preferred supplier list / use a framework to buy your external law firm services? Please provide details where possible.
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Retained Instrument, Foreign Body Left In Situ (FOI_6830)
The following information was requested:
I am making this request for information under the Freedom of Information Act.
How many claims have been made against NHS Trusts in the past five years for retained objects post-procedure?
By ‘retained foreign object post procedure’, I refer to retained guide wires, mouth props, surgical instruments, needles, vaginal swabs, throat packs, etc.
Please break this down by how many claims:
- Were settled with damages paid.
- Have been rejected or closed.
- Remain open.
Of those which were settled, please confirm the total amount paid in damages, broken down by:
- Financial year (1st April-31st March 2019/20, 2021/22, 2022/23, 2023/24, and 1st April-30th September 2024).
- Speciality
- NHS Trust.
What was the overall cost of all claims, inclusive of legal costs?
Fire or Burn in a surgical theatre (FOI_6814)
The following information was requested:
Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, could NHS Resolution provide the following information.
• The total number of claims made to NHS Resolution between 2019 and 2024 relating to fires that took place in surgical theatre, or burns sustained as a result of a fire in a surgical theatre.
• The number of successful claims made to NHS resolution between 2019 and 2024 relating to fires that took place in surgical theatre, or burns sustained as a result of a fire in a surgical theatre.
• The total value (£s) of successful claims paid out by NHS resolutions between 2019 and 2024 relating to fires that took place in surgical theatre, or burns sustained as a result of a fire in a surgical theatre.
• The total number of disciplinary actions taken against NHS staff as a result of successful claims to NHS resolution between 2019 and 2024 relating to fires that took place in surgical theatre, or burns sustained as a result of a fire in a surgical theatre.
Diathermy burns & Hospital acquired infection (FOI_6813)
The following information was requested:
Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, could NHS Resolution provide the following information.
• The total number of claims made to NHS Resolution between 2019 and 2024 relating to infections resultant from surgery or surgical site infection (SSI).
• The number of successful claims made to NHS resolution between 2019 and 2024 relating to infections resultant from surgery or surgical site infection (SSI).
• The total value (£s) of successful claims paid out by NHS resolutions between 2019 and 2024 relating to infections resultant from surgery or surgical site infection (SSI).
• The total number of disciplinary actions taken against NHS staff as a result of successful claims to NHS resolution between 2019 and 2024 relating to infections resultant from surgery or surgical site infection (SSI).
(Clarified on 28 October 2024)
• The total number of claims made to NHS Resolution between 2019 and 2024 relating to learning ‘cause’ code “diathermy burns/ react. To prep”, “Failed Infection Control Policy/Hospital Hygiene”, and injury “hospital acquired infections”.
• The number of successful claims made to NHS resolution between 2019 and 2024 relating to learning ‘cause’ code “diathermy burns/ react. To prep”, “Failed Infection Control Policy/Hospital Hygiene”, and injury “hospital acquired infections”.
• The total value (£s) of successful claims paid out by NHS resolutions between 2019 and 2024 relating to learning ‘cause’ code “diathermy burns/ react. To prep”, “Failed Infection Control Policy/Hospital Hygiene”, and injury “hospital acquired infections”.
• The total number of disciplinary actions taken against NHS staff as a result of successful claims to NHS resolution between 2019 and 2024 relating learning ‘cause’ code “diathermy burns/ react. To prep”, “Failed Infection Control Policy/Hospital Hygiene”, and injury “hospital acquired infections”.
Anaesthesia, Intensive care medicine, Neurosurgery, Radiology (FOI_6915)
The following information was requested:
I would like all the information you hold in its most granular form going back 10 years. I am particularly interested in claims related to anaesthesia, pain medicine/management, interventional radiology, intensive care (adult and paediatric).
For each of these areas it is important that all the information you hold is provided and not filtered.
I want to see dates of incidents, narratives of claims where available, details of the operations or procedures involved, any available details you can share about the patients affected, and most importantly the amounts paid in settlement.
(Please, see attached PDF for clarifications.)
Individual Trusts Claim Payments (FOI_6810)
The following information was requested:
Please could you share with me the following information for the Trust:
• How many negligence claims have been made against the Trust by patients or their families in the last five years.
• How much has the Trust paid out to patients or their families, as a result of these claims over the same time period?
• What have the legal fees cost the Trust over that period?
• And how much has the Trust had to pay for claimants’ legal costs?
If it’s possible to break down these figures and costs for each financial year over the last five years that would be great: 2019/2020 to 2023/2024.
- County Durham & Darlington
- North Tees & Hartlepool
- South Tees
- Gateshead
- South Tyneside & Sunderland
- Newcastle
- Cumbria
- Northumbria
- Harrogate and district
- York & Scarborough
- Tees, Esk, Wear Valley
- Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne & Wear
(Clarification made on 15 October 2024)
I do have another question…
Obviously all the trusts have insurance cover for negligence claims – what is the difference between the RPST and CNST? Essentially I’m trying to work out how much the trusts have had to pay each year to cover their negligence claims insurance, and how much they’ve had to pay outside of that cover. Can you point me to the correct columns in the spreadsheet please?
