Asked by: John Howell (Conservative - Henley)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average legal costs to the NHS of bringing legal proceedings against doctors who have been excluded from their hospitals were in each of the last three years.
Answered by Dan Poulter
Maintaining High Professional Standards sets out the agreed procedure for legal involvement in National Health Service disciplinary proceedings against doctors, but no information is held centrally on the legal costs.
Asked by: John Howell (Conservative - Henley)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the cost was to the NHS of paying doctors who had been excluded from practice on full pay in the most recent year for which figures are available.
Answered by Dan Poulter
This information is not collected centrally.
Asked by: John Howell (Conservative - Henley)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many exclusions of doctors under the Maintaining High Professional Standards framework have been for reasons relating to their non-clinical behaviour.
Answered by Dan Poulter
This information is not collected centrally.
Under Directions to the NHS Litigation Authority, the National Clinical Assessment Service function has a responsibility to monitor and report on national suspensions and exclusions under the Maintaining High Professional Standards framework.
The National Clinical Assessment Service has provided the following information. In their most recent published report ‘Use of exclusion and suspension from work in England’ of June 2014, which refers to financial year to 31 March 2014 they recorded 148 exclusions for doctors with a mean duration of 41 weeks based on 75 cases.
The information provided does not provide a breakdown of clinical and non-clinical behaviour.
The classification used is that the primary recorded reasons for exclusion are conduct (119 cases (80%)) and clinical (29 cases (20%)).
Asked by: John Howell (Conservative - Henley)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many NHS doctors are excluded from practice under the Maintaining High Professional Standards framework.
Answered by Dan Poulter
This information is not collected centrally.
Under Directions to the NHS Litigation Authority, the National Clinical Assessment Service function has a responsibility to monitor and report on national suspensions and exclusions under the Maintaining High Professional Standards framework.
The National Clinical Assessment Service has provided the following information. In their most recent published report ‘Use of exclusion and suspension from work in England’ of June 2014, which refers to financial year to 31 March 2014 they recorded 148 exclusions for doctors with a mean duration of 41 weeks based on 75 cases.
The information provided does not provide a breakdown of clinical and non-clinical behaviour.
The classification used is that the primary recorded reasons for exclusion are conduct (119 cases (80%)) and clinical (29 cases (20%)).