Breast Cancer Claims (FOI_6176)
The following information was requested:
- The number of claims investigated by the NHSLA that included an allegation relating to delayed diagnosis and/or treatment of breast cancer for each of the following 10 financial years: 2013/14 to 2022/23.
- The number of claims relating to delayed diagnosis and/or treatment of breast cancer settled by the NHSLA for each of the financial years above.
- The amount of compensation paid on claims relating to delayed diagnosis and/or treatment of breast cancer for each of the financial years above.
- The largest compensation settlement paid for a single claim relating to delayed diagnosis and/or treatment of breast cancer in the history of the NHSLA and when this was settled.
- Average time it took to resolve a claim relating to delayed diagnosis and/or treatment of breast cancer for the years highlighted above
- The hospital trust with the highest number of claims relating to delayed diagnosis and/or treatment of breast cancer against it over the 10 year period covered by the financial years listed above.
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Claims Settled for named Trusts (FOI_6177)
The following information was requested:
Follow up to FOI_6145
I would be very grateful if the additional 12 Trusts listed below could be added to our comparison list? ‘The number of Clinical Negligence claims settled for the period 2018/19 to 2022/23 against the data range submitted by similar sized organisations.
1. Royal Surrey Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (NHS FT)
2. Epsom & St Helier University Hospitals
3. Surrey & Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust
4. University Hospital Southampton
5. Oxford University Hospital
6. East Kent Hospitals University NHS FT
7. Stoke Mandeville Hospital
8. University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust
Additional trusts:
1. Medway NHS Foundation Trust
2. Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
3. University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust
4. Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
5. Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Trust
6. Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
7. Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
8. Guys and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
9. Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
10. Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
11. Barking Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust
12. Guys and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
Foreign body and Wrong site surgery (FOI_6172)
The following information was requested:
- Please could you provide me with the total number and the total value of claims paid out by the NHSLA for the financial year 2022/2023 where ‘surgical/foreign body left in situ” is one of the grounds for claiming showing damages paid and costs paid.
- Please also provide the individual amounts of compensation paid for the five biggest awards and please state what the foreign body was?
- For the last financial year 2022/2023 how much compensation has been paid out in total by the NHSLA as a result of wrong site surgery? (i.e., operating on the right leg instead of the left etc).
- For the last financial year 2022/2023 what was the largest single payment made for compensation as a result of wrong site surgery?
- For the last financial year 2022/2023 what was the total number of claims paid out as a result of compensation for wrong site surgery? Also provide a list giving a brief explanation of each wrong site surgery claim. E.g., wrong eye, wrong knee, wrong kidney etc.
Please note that this question refers to claims paid out in 2022/23 regardless of when the claim was lodged or when the incident took place.
GP Indemnity scheme (FOI_6170)
The following information was requested:
NHS Resolution started operating a state indemnity scheme for general practice in England in April 2019 and the ELSGP in April 2020.
QUESTIONS:
- Do General Practitioners (GPs) or they practice pay a fee for this indemnity or is it statefunded?
- If a fee is charged, what is the average amount per GP?
- Do NHS GPs need to retain membership to other Medical Defence Organisations?
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Infected Blood Compensation (FOI_6167)
The following information was requested:
Please provide copies of all correspondence relating to Infected Blood Compensation sent to or by the below persons (including any attachments) during the period 5th April 2023 – 5th September 2023.
- Joanne Evans (Director of Finance and Corporate Planning)
- Dr Denise Chaffer (Director of Safety and Learning)
For the avoidance of doubt, the scope of this request does not include information about
individual patient cases
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University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust (FOI_6157)
The following information was requested:
Since Leicester Royal Infirmary was suspended from performing reconstructive maxillofacial surgery in 2016 by the Royal College of Surgeons:
1. How many clinical negligence claims related to maxillofacial surgery have been brought forward against the hospital?
a. How many of these claims were successful and have been settled?
b. What is the total sum the hospital has paid out in compensation and legal fees?
Please provide the data to each question broken down by year
Top 5 Specialties (FOI_6154)
The following information was requested:
Top 5 specialties by number of claims received and by the amount paid out for the last 5 financial years.
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Top 10 legal firms with most claimant costs (FOI_6155)
The following information was requested:
All questions relates to the clinical negligence scheme (CNST)
1. In the 2022-2023 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 2022/23 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 2022/23? 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 2022/23 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 2022/23 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.
