Private health insurance contribution for staff_FOI_7897
The following information was requested:
This is an information request relating to private health insurance for staff. Please provide me with the following information for the 2025-26 financial year:
The total amount spent by your organisation on funding or subsidising private healthcare/medical insurance for your staff during the 2025-26 financial year.
A summary or copy of the private healthcare policy/policies currently available to your staff. Please include details regarding the level of cover provided and the eligibility criteria for staff to access this benefit (e.g., whether it is available to all staff, or restricted to certain pay grades or roles).
The total number of staff members who were enrolled in or successfully claimed from this private healthcare scheme during the 2025-26 financial year.
Claims relating to Bile Duct Damage (FOI_7899)
The following information was requested:
Follow up to: FOI_5297.
[On the 14 May, you requested]
You previously kindly provided me with information pertaining to the medicolegal burden to the NHS of bile duct injury during cholecystectomy (request number above). The data you provided was between 2001 and 2021………I’m wondering if there is any updated information available.
(Please, see attached PDF for clarifications.)
Primary Care Appeal case (FOI_7888)
The following information was requested:
Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I would like to request copies of documents and correspondence relating to the appeal decision concerning the application by PharmaDerma (or any associated applicant entity) for an NHS community pharmacy contract in Totnes, Devon, believed to relate to premises at or connected with Leatside Surgery.
In particular, I request:
- The full written appeal determination or decision notice issued by NHS Resolution or the Pharmacy Appeals Unit.
- Any documents setting out the reasons for allowing the appeal and overturning the approval previously granted for the application.
- Any reports, briefing papers, assessment documents, recommendations, or internal summaries prepared for decision-makers relating to the appeal outcome.
- Any correspondence sent to the applicant, Devon Integrated Care Board, or interested parties which explains the reasoning behind the decision.
- Any documents identifying which provisions of the NHS (Pharmaceutical and Local Pharmaceutical Services) Regulations 2013 were considered not to have been satisfied.
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Public liability claims involving slips, trips, and falls on NHS premises (FOI_7869)
The following information was requested:
I am writing to request information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
Please provide the following information for the past five years in relation to public liability claims involving slips, trips, and falls on NHS premises:
1. The total number of claims relating to slips, trips, and falls.
2. The total amount paid out in compensation for these claims.
3. The average compensation payment per successful claim.
4. The highest single compensation payment made.
5. A breakdown of claims by location, where available (e.g. hospital corridors, stairways, entrances, wet areas, car parks).
6. Any available information on the most common causes of these incidents (e.g. wet floors, inadequate slip resistance, spillages, poor maintenance).
7. The number of claims that were:
- Settled
- Defended and rejected
If the information cannot be provided in full, please provide a summary or aggregated data within the cost limit.
And clarified:
Having reviewed the material, I would be grateful if you could clarify or provide the following, where available:
Having reviewed the material, I would be grateful if you could clarify or provide the following, where available:
1. Average compensation per successful claim
2. While total damages and number of settled claims are provided, could you confirm whether the average compensation payment per successful claim is held or can be reasonably derived from existing datasets?
3. Claim outcomes (defended vs rejected)
4. The data distinguishes between claims with damages and those with NIL damages.
5. Could you clarify whether NIL damages cases include:
- Claims successfully defended
- Claims withdrawn or abandoned
- Claims settled without payment
6. If available, please provide a breakdown of claim outcomes by these categories.
7. Causes of incidents
8. I understand that detailed causes may not be separately coded. However, could you confirm whether any broader categorisation exists beyond “slips, trips and falls” (for example, environmental factors, surface conditions, or equipment-related causes)?
Claims against North East Ambulance Service NHS – fatality (FOI_7865)
The following information was requested:
Fatal clinical negligence cases against North East Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust
- Please disclose for each of the following years, in regards to North East Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust, the number of negligence claims involving a primary injury of “fatality”: 2015 – 2025.
- For the above claims of negligence with an outcome of fatality, please filter out and give the primary cause given against each fatal case:
For example:
Fail / Delay Treatment
Fail/Delay Admitting To Hosp.
Fail/Delay Referring To Hosp.
Failure/Delay Diagnosis
Fail To Supervise
Unexpected Death
Other
Fail To Recog. Complication Of
Wrong Diagnosis
Inappropriate Treatment
Lack Of Assistance/Care
(Please, see attached PDF for clarifications.)
Claims for head and neck_FOI_7867
The following information was requested and clarified:
Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I am writing to request data regarding clinical negligence claims settled or lodged against the NHS between January 1, 2020, and December 31, 2025.
Specifically, I am requesting data for the following medical specialities:
· Ophthalmology
· Otolaryngology (ENT)
· Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery (MaxFax)
· Neurosurgery
· Plastic Surgery (specifically cases categorised as Head and Neck related)
Data Requirements:
Please provide the data broken down by the subheadings provided in the attached document.
For your convenience, these primary data fields include:
Administrative: Claims status (open, closed, or settled but not paid), incident date, NHSR notification date, date claim closed, primary speciality associated with claim, location of incident, CNST Member/ Trust name, defendant law firm, claimant law firm.
Clinical: Incident details/ description, primary cause, injury sustained, patient sex and age at incident
Financial: Damages paid, defence costs paid, claimant costs paid, total paid to date, total damages reserved/ claimed, total claimant costs claimed, claim scheme, outcome/ resolution method (e.g., settled out of court, trial, dropped).
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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
