Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many clinical negligence claims relating to a stroke have been made against NHS trusts due to (a) a misdiagnosis and (b) mistreatment of atrial fibrillation in the last twelve months.
NHS Resolution has supplied the following information:
NHS Resolution holds information relating to claims notified to it against pre-defined injury, cause and specialty codes. NHS Resolution has used the following search terms:
The total number of clinical claims where one of the injuries was ‘stroke’ and one of the causes was ‘Failure/Delay Diagnosis’ or ‘Wrong Diagnosis’, received 1 December 2016 to 30 November 2017 was 35.
NHS Resolution does not have a code for mistreatment of atrial fibrillation so it has undertaken a search of the number of clinical claims where one of the injuries was ‘stroke’ and ‘atrial fibrillation’ was mentioned in the incident details reported, received 1 December 2016 to 30 November 2017.
NHS Resolution has advised that it cannot provide the number of claims because to do so might lead to the identification of an individual.