Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much NHS trusts and foundation trusts paid in clinical negligence compensation to private patients in the last financial year for which figures are available.
NHS Resolution handles clinical negligence claims on behalf of National Health Service trusts and NHS foundation trusts in England.
NHS Resolution has advised that trusts’ income generation’s activities are indemnified under the Clinical Negligence Scheme for Trusts. However, claims involving private patients are not coded separately in their Claims Management System and it is therefore not possible to provide this data.