Sodium Valproate: Compensation
(asked on 31st March 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the potential total value of claims of clinical negligence linked to sodium valproate.
Answered by
Maria Caulfield
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
NHS Resolution handles clinical negligence claims on behalf of National Health Service organisations and independent sector providers of NHS care in England. As at 31 March 2022, NHS Resolution had received 127 claims relating to sodium valproate, of which seven are currently open. The total amount paid in damages and costs for the 120 closed cases relating to sodium valproate is £14.6 million. The value of the remaining seven open cases has yet to be determined.