Failure, Delay Diagnosis or Wrong Diagnosis (FOI_6034)
The following information was requested:
1. Please could I ask for the number of medical negligence claims between financial years 2019/20- 2022/23 where the Primary Cause is ‘Failure/Delay Diagnosis’ or ‘Wrong Diagnosis’. In addition to the totals, Please show the data for each separate trust.
2. Please could I ask for the number of medical negligence claims between financial years 2019/20- 2022/23 with damages paid (including PPOs) where the primary cause is ‘Failure/Delay Diagnosis’ or ‘Wrong Diagnosis’. In addition to the totals, Please show the data for each separate trust.
3. Please could I ask for the number of medical negligence claims between years 2019/20- 2022/23 with NIL damages paid where the primary cause is ‘Failure/Delay Diagnosis’ or ‘Wrong Diagnosis’. In addition to the totals, Please show the data for each separate trust.
4. Please could I ask for the number of medical negligence claims between financial years 2019/20- 2022/23 where the primary cause is ‘Failure/Delay Diagnosis’ or ‘Wrong Diagnosis’ where the patient involved was a child (under 18). In addition to the totals, Please show the data for each separate trust.
5. Please could I ask for the number of medical negligence claims between financial years 2019/20- 2022/23 with damages paid where the primary cause is ‘Failure/Delay Diagnosis’ or ‘Wrong Diagnosis’ and the patient involved was a child (under 18). In addition to the totals, Please show the data for each separate trust.
6. Please could I ask for the number of medical negligence claims between financial years 2019/20- 2022/23 with NIL damages paid where the Primary Cause is ‘Failure/Delay Diagnosis’ or ‘Wrong Diagnosis’ where the patient involved was under 18. In addition to the totals, Please show the data for each separate trust.
Networking Equipment (FOI_6032)
The following information was requested:
- EOS / EOL Networking Equipment
- Network Lifecycle
- Part 1. Have you conducted a POC (proof of concept) in the last 12 months for any of the below technology areas? Part 2. Do you plan to refresh your network in the next 24 months for any of the below technology areas:
- Do you have a Cisco estate for any of the below architecture, and what technology/equipment has been implemented?
- Cisco Support
- Cisco Partner/Reseller
- Cisco Enterprise Agreement (EA)
- Do you have an HP/Aruba estate for any of the below architectures, and what technology/equipment has been implemented?:
- HP/Aruba Support
- HP/Aruba Partner/Reseller
- HP/Aruba Enterprise Agreement (EA)
- Telephony
Please, see the attached PDF for details.
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General surgery or Gastroenterology (FOI_6028)
The following information was requested:
Under Freedom of Information Act I would like to request the following information.
Medical negligence claims registered within the specialty of Upper Gastro-intestinal Surgery, including Bariatric Surgery (if this is not a specific category in your data then kindly include any claims with the following key words: “bariatric”, “metabolic surgery”, “weight loss surgery”, “obesity surgery”, “sleeve gastrectomy”, “gastric bypass”, ‘roux en y gastric bypass”) between January 2014 to May 2023. If any issues regarding this categorisation, kindly include all claims registered under ‘General Surgery” instead. Please include the following data points for each claim:
Claimant sex and age group (5-year brackets)
Name of surgery/procedure
Incident description
Location
Description of injury
Cause
Outcome
Financial year of claim
Claim status (open/closed, litigated/not litigated, settlement/trial date and costs).
Total amount paid out, total amount paid by NHS England, and amounts paid to the claimant, the claimant’s legal team and the defence legal team in GBP.
Maternity and Neonatal Claims (FOI_6025)
The following information was requested:
Please could you provide the following information for the following years 2018/19, 2019/20, 2020/21, 2021/22, 2022/23:
- 1. The total number of claims, within maternity and neonates, by NHS Trust, primary injury and the status of each claim.
- The total amount paid within maternity and neonates by NHS Trust and primary injury.
- The CNST premium cost paid by NHS Trust, specifically for maternity/neonates and whole Trust.
- The total number of claims and total amount paid, within maternity and neonates, by NHS Trust where insufficient midwifery or obstetrician staff was a significant causal factor.
- The total number of claims and total amount paid, within maternity and neonates, by NHS Trust and primary cause
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Invoice Payments (FOI_6015)
The following information was requested:
Please may you provide me, in Microsoft Excel or an equivalent electronic format, with a list of non NHS trade invoices that were not paid within 30 days for the last 6 financial years which would feed into the Regulation 113 Notice you are required to publish each year as part of your obligations under The Public Contracts Regulations 2015, with the following information for each invoice (where available):
- The name of the Supplier
- Supplier email address
- Supplier company registration number
- Supplier postal address
- Supplier telephone number
- Supplier website
- The date of the invoice
- The invoice reference
- The gross value of the Invoice
- The date the invoice should have been paid by
- The actual payment date of the invoice
- The total amount of interest liability due to late payment of the invoice
- The total amount of interest paid to the supplier due to late payment of the invoice.
For the avoidance of doubt the above would be based on the data which is mentioned in the Annual Reports on page 46 (2019/20), page 38/39 (2020/2021), page 50 (2021/22), shown on your website, and the equivalent for all financial years 2016 to 2023 inclusive.
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Usage of Employment Agencies (FOI_6021)
The following information was requested:
- For the use of agencies, please can you confirm if the NHS Resolution works under, Non-Clinical Temporary and Fixed Term Staff CCS Framework RM6160 and the new CCS Non-Clinical Staffing Framework Agreement RM6277.
- Please can you confirm the list of agencies that have supplied to the company under the framework through the dates of January 2022 – December 2022.
- For the same 12-month period, please can you provide the list of agencies that have supplied to you staff outside of the framework CCS Framework RM6160 .
- Please outline your spending per agency, broken down by grade and speciality of roles or lots department for the above time period.
- Please can you confirm on what occasions you would look to go outside of the framework for roles as below;
- Please can you confirm the highest agency hourly charge rate and their speciality staffing.
- What contractual relationships are in place for supplying Temporary and Fixed Term Staff CCS Framework RM6160 and the new CCS Staffing Framework Agreement RM6277.
- And who is responsible for managing them?
- Please can you please provide me with the name, contact number & email address of the person responsible for agreeing on staffing contracts for your organisation.
- Please can you provide details of the names of the decision-makers who ultimately decide which agencies your organisation uses for non-clinical staff for CCS Staffing Framework Agreement RM6277 and the previous Temporary and Fixed Term Staff CCS Framework RM6160.
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Sodium Valproate Harm in Babies (FOI_6012)
The following information was requested:
I am requesting under the Freedom of Information act broken down for the following years 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022 the following information:
- The total number of claims made for sodium valproate harming babies in utero. Also, the number of these claims, which were for babies born from 2018 onwards.
- The total number of successful claims made for sodium valproate harming babies in utero and the total amount of compensation paid. Also, the number of these claims which were for babies born from 2018 onwards and the resulting total compensation paid.
Amputation, Blindness, Cosmetic disfigurement (FOI_6006)
The following information was requested:
- How many clinical negligence claims involving amputation were paid out by the NHSLA in theyear 2021/22 what was the monetary value of payments made against those claims,irrespective of when the claim was made? For each amputation please list the body part or limbinvolved. Please give the three NHS Trusts against whom the most successful claims were paidout in 2021/22 and how many claims related to each of those trusts.
- How many clinical negligence claims involving blindness were paid out by the NHSLA in theyear 2021/22 and what was the monetary value of payments made against those claims,irrespective of when the claim was made? Please give the three NHS Trusts against whom themost successful claims were paid out in 2021/22 and how many claims related to each of thosetrusts.
- How many clinical negligence claims involving cosmetic disfigurement were paid out by theNHSLA in the year 2021/22, what was the monetary value of payments made against thoseclaims, irrespective of when the claim was made? Please give the three NHS Trusts againstwhom the most successful claims were paid out in 2021/22 and how many claims related toeach of those trusts.
