Freedom of Information disclosure log

Brain Damage and Respiratory Failure (FOI_5900)

Service: Claims Management Speciality: Cardio Surgery, Cardiology, Casualty / A & E, Intensive Care Medicine, Neurology, Neurosurgery, Respiratory Medicine/ Thoracic Medic

The following information was requested:

Follow up to FOI_5756

Further to your response, I would like to amend my freedom-of-information request as follows for datasets pertaining to claims under:

  • injury codes: brain damage and respiratory failure, in each of the speciality codes below
  • speciality codes: intensive care medicine; respiratory medicine/thoracic medicine, casualty/A&E, neurology, neurosurgery, cardio surgery and cardiology
  • cause codes: N/A
  • from the years 2017 to 2021 in England

Mesothelioma, Asbestos Exposure (FOI_5898)

The following information was requested:

I would like to repeat a request I made in 2019 in order to update my information for the charity Mesothelioma UK. I would like the most recent 15 years of data.

1) How many civil law cases of negligence have been taken against the NHS by current or former NHS employees who have developed mesothelioma and have sued because they believe it is due to asbestos exposure at work? I would like to know on a year-by-year basis
i) Number of claims received,
ii) Number of claims settled with a damages payment resolved in favour of the employee,
iii) Number of claims settled without a damages payment resolved in favour of the NHS,
iv) Number of claims resolved at trial with damages approved, set by court
v) Number of claims resolved out of court

I would also like two collated pieces of information (i.e. not broken down year-by-year)
vi) Number of claims received by gender
vii) Number of claims received by occupation type

Ophthalmology_Difference in data (FOI_5894)

Service: Claims Management Speciality: Ophthalmology

The following information was requested:

Follow up to FOI_5773.

I’m trying to compare what looks to be a steep rise in ophthalmology payments in the latest year with payments in other specialties. So I’m wondering why the stats in your FOIs don’t seem to match up to the annual report figures published here:  Annual statistics – NHS Resolution

For example, the FOIs say total payments for closed ophthalmology clinical claims were £49,152,144 in 2021/22 and £26,694,710 in 2020/21. However, in the supplementary spreadsheet, these figures were listed as £41,307,386 and £40,537,522 respectively.

Would appreciate your help in clearing this up.

Early Notification Scheme Incidents (FOI_5878)

The following information was requested:

Under the Freedom of Information Act I am requesting the number of incidents reported by every NHS Trust under the Early Notification Scheme (which is part of the NHS Resolutions Maternity Campaign) under your defined reporting periods for the years:

– 2019-2020
– 2020-2021
– 2021-2022

Research on Early Notification Scheme (FOI_5877)

The following information was requested:

Could you please provide the following information under the Freedom of Information Act:

  • Any research held by or shared with NHSR relating to individuals and/ or families experience of the Early Notification Scheme
  • Any research held by or shared with NHSR relating to views provided by claimants about the Early Notification Scheme

Please provide any research held by or shared with NHSR since the beginning of the scheme.

Brain Damage (FOI_5875)

The following information was requested:

  1. What was the total number of allegations or attempted clinical negligence claims related to brain injury against NHS trusts in England per annum between 2021 and 2011? Please provide the data broken down by year and, if possible, by NHS trust.
  2. What was the total number of successful clinical negligence claims related to brain injury against NHS trusts in England between 2021 and 2011? Please provide the data broken down by year and, if possible, by NHS trust.
  3. What was the total sum paid out in successful and settled clinical negligence claims related to brain injury against NHS trusts in England between 2021 and 2011? Please provide the data broken down by year and, if possible, by NHS trust.

LTPS Injury codes (FOI_5862)

The following information was requested:

For each of the years

2018/19
2019/20
2020/21
2021/22
2022/23 YTD

Please disclose, in the form of an Excel spreadsheet, the total number of injury claims by NHS staff with regards to each of the following coded conditions [please see the codes listed in the attached pdf document].

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