NHS: Negligence
(asked on 10th January 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will list the solicitors instructed to defend clinical negligence claims against the NHS where the claim has resolved, and for each such firm (a) what fees were paid, (b) how many claims were made and (c) how many of those were successful as denoted by payment of damages whether by court award or settlement in the last 12 months.
NHS Resolution manages clinical negligence claims against the National Health Service in England on behalf of member organisations. NHS Resolution has provided the following information:
The data extract is for the last audited financial year 2016/17. The 2017/18 data has not yet been audited.
The table below shows the number of clinical claims closed (or settled as a Periodical Payment) 2016/17 as at 31 March 2017 by panel firm.
Panel Firm | Number of Claims | Number of Successful Claims | Defence Costs Paid |
Bevan Brittan LLP Solicitors | 1,078 | 609 | 12,213,899 |
BLM Solicitors | 109 | 58 | 823,468 |
Browne Jacobson Solicitors | 927 | 520 | 10,244,176 |
Capsticks Solicitors | 1,123 | 657 | 12,279,667 |
Clyde and Co Solicitors | 397 | 238 | 4,187,710 |
DAC Beachcroft LLP Solicitors | 2,255 | 1,357 | 22,851,953 |
Hempsons Solicitors | 1,309 | 792 | 15,747,577 |
Hill Dickinson Solicitors | 885 | 527 | 9,172,560 |
Kennedys Solicitors | 964 | 558 | 9,403,916 |
Ward Hadaway Solicitors | 366 | 178 | 4,247,966 |
Weightmans Solicitors | 900 | 513 | 8,620,341 |
Total | 10,313 | 6,007 | 109,793,233 |
Notes:
- Defence costs include profit, costs and disbursements such as counsel, expert fees and court fees. It would not be correct to say that these are the sums received by those firms for the services that they alone provide.
- The variability in the numbers for the firms is caused by the number of offices the defence firm has on the panel.