Primary Care Appeals case (FOI_6717)
The following information was requested:
Please could you send me the full documentation including SOPs and supporting documents for the Application and appeal by Medival (Yorkshire) LTD for inclusion in the pharmaceutical list at 100 Allerton Road Bradford.
REF: SHA/25842
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NHS 111 (FOI_6714)
The following information was requested:
Please could you state how many cases you have settled in the total of the last eight financial years (2016/17 to 2023/24) under the clinical negligence scheme where the case has been brought against the NHS 111 service and the total compensation paid out for those claims?
Please also provide a breakdown of (i) both the injury code and (ii) the cause code for all of these successful claims in the last seven years.
NOTE: In relation to the year stated this should refer to the year in which the claim was paid NOT when the claim was lodged or when the incident took place.
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Hospital Acquired Infection (FOI_6713)
The following information was requested:
1. Please provide me with a table showing how many successful claims were lodged against
each individual NHS hospital trust for the total of the last ten financial years (2014/15 to 2023/24 inclusive) where one of the injury codes was a hospital acquired infection. Only include trusts where there were ten successful claims or more.
2. For the ten hospital trusts with the most claims please state what the total amount of
damages was that were awarded to the patients for those ten years from each of those trusts.
3. Please could you provide me with a breakdown of payments made under the CNST scheme where injury 1, 2 or 3 is for Hospital Acquired Infection (HAI) for (a) 2021/22, (b) 2022/23 and (c) 2023/24. This should include the number of successful claims, the damages paid and the costs for both defendant and claimant.
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Child Sexual Abuse Claims (FOI_6715)
The following information was requested:
Please consider the following as a request under the Freedom of Information Act, seeking records on the NHS Trusts below:
- East Midlands NHS Ambulance Service
- Yorkshire NHS Ambulance Service
Please provide me with the following and categorize them in financial years:
1. All separation agreements and settlements reached with past or present hospital staff at these Ambulance Services in relation to child sexual abuse allegations from January 1, 2019 until August 2024 or the last financial year available.
2. A sum of all financial settlements paid by these Ambulance Services to families or alleged victims of child sexual abuse from January 1, 2019, until August 2024 or the last financial year available.
(Please, see further clarification in the attached PDF.)
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Average payments regarding Obstetrics claims (FOI_6712)
The following information was requested:
1. Settled obstetrics cases, CP/BD & non-CP/BD, by Trust to include average damages value & payments made. To cover the last 5 – 10 years if possible.
2. For obstetrics cases, do you have data to show what the damages costs were made up of? i.e. average value for property costs, equipment costs, care costs, medication costs etc. if so, could you provide this too and ideally also by trust.
Claims regarding surrogacy abroad (FOI_6710)
The following information was requested:
Following the 2020 decision by Lady Hale to allow for claims against the NHS for damages to cover the cost of commercial surrogacy abroad, please can you tell me – under FoI legislation – how much NHS Resolution has paid out in such damages awards for commercial surrogacy abroad since 2020?
Thank you. A copy of the judgement can be seen here: https://www.supremecourt.uk/cases/docs/uksc-2019-0013-judgment
Gynaecology (FOI_6709)
The following information was requested:
I am writing to request information under the Freedom of Information Act, please can you provide the following:
1. The number of claims against NHS Trusts for Gynaecology in the last 5 years? Can this be broken down by year and by NHS Trust? Financial Years: 2019/20, 2020/21, 2021/22, 2023/24.
2. The number of claims against NHS Trusts for Gynaecology in the last 5 years? Can this be broken down by year and by cause? Financial Years: 2019/20, 2020/21, 2021/22, 2023/24.
3. The number of claims against NHS Trusts for Gynaecology in the last 5 years? Can this be broken down by year and by injury? Financial Years: 2019/20, 2020/21, 2021/22, 2023/24.
4. The number and cost of claims against NHS Trusts for Gynaecology in the last 5 years broken down by Trust and year. (Including No. of claims, Damages Paid, NHS Legal Costs paid, Claimant legal costs paid, Total paid)
5. The number and cost of claims against NHS Trusts for Gynaecology in the last 5 years broken down by cause and year. (Including No. of claims, Damages Paid, NHS Legal Costs paid, Claimant legal costs paid, Total paid)
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Top 10 legal firms with most claimant costs (FOI_6711)
The following information was requested:
1. In the 2023-2024 financial year please state which ten legal firms received the most money from the NHSLA in relation to claimant costs for the clinical negligence scheme (CNST)? For each of the ten firms please state how much money they received in relation to claimant costs for the clinical negligence scheme (CNST) in the financial year? For each firm also please state how many claims this represents, and the damages that were paid in these cases.
2. In total how much money was paid in legal costs in 2023/24 and how this was divided between NHSLA legal costs and claimants’ legal costs? How does this total figure compare with previous years’ figures?
3. What was the biggest settlement to a legal firm in respect of claimant’s legal costs for a single case that was settled in 2023/24? For that case, please state the amount of damages paid, the claimant’s costs and the name of the legal firm in question and the NHSLA ‘S legal costs associated with the case. Please state if the case was settled following a court hearing or not and what the injury was that the patient suffered from.
4. In relation to only those cases that were settled in the 2023/24 financial year and the claimant damages paid were in excess of £100,000, which single case saw the biggest claimant’s legal costs as a multiple of the claimant’s damages? For that case, please state the amount of damages paid, the claimant’s costs and the name of the legal firm in question and the NHSLA ‘S legal costs associated with the case.
5. In relation to only those cases that were settled in the 2023/24 financial year and the claimant damages paid were in excess of £1,000, which single case saw the biggest claimant’s legal costs as a multiple of the claimant’s damages? For that case, please state the amount of damages paid, the claimant’s costs and the name of the legal firm in question and the NHSLA ‘S legal costs associated with the case.
Note: In relation to Q.4 and Q.5 I am after the biggest multiple. So costs of £600,000 on a case settled for £150,000 damages would be x4, and bigger than costs of £2m in a case settled for £1m which would be x2. Also note I have dropped a request for the nature of the injury so as not to fall within the scope of S.40.
