Multiple Births
(asked on 5th December 2014) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the (a) number of cases and (b) total cost of settling the claims dealt with by the NHS Litigation Authority involving the still birth, neonatal death or disability of a baby or the disability of the mother or maternal death as a result of a multiple pregnancy in each of the last 10 years.
Information on the number of obstetrics claims received between 1 April 2004 and 31 March 2014 which have involved a multiple pregnancy are set out in the following tables.
Claims not settled as a periodic payment order as at 30 November 2014:
NHSLA Notification Year | No. of Claims | Damages Paid | Defence Costs Paid | Claimant Costs Paid | Total Paid |
04/05 | 17 | 257,685 | 160,195 | 199,703 | 617,583 |
05/06 | 25 | 2,230,500 | 247,739 | 503,085 | 2,981,324 |
06/07 | 26 | 3,421,731 | 160,890 | 441,675 | 4,024,296 |
07/08 | 25 | 2,049,637 | 409,877 | 750,189 | 3,209,702 |
08/09 | 17 | 2,273,298 | 314,113 | 858,335 | 3,445,746 |
09/10 | 32 | 3,505,555 | 472,978 | 906,368 | 4,884,900 |
10/11 | 26 | 2,231,560 | 218,757 | 761,800 | 3,212,117 |
11/12 | 18 | 1,702,994 | 252,423 | 403,170 | 2,358,587 |
12/13 | 27 | 1,992,742 | 299,511 | 396,250 | 2,688,503 |
13/14 | 33 | 79,250 | 130,803 | 35,115 | 245,168 |
Total | 246 | 19,744,952 | 2,667,285 | 5,255,690 | 27,667,927 |
Source: NHS Litigation Authority (NHSLA) December 2014
Claims settled as a periodic payment order as at 30 November 2014:
NHSLA Notification Year | No. of Claims | O/S Damages | Damages Paid | Total Damages | Defence Costs Paid | Claimant Costs Paid | Total |
05/06 | 5 | 18,259,347 | 15,421,817 | 33,681,164 | 620,036 | 1,818,621 | 36,119,820 |
06/07 | 1 | 2,669,629 | 2,660,371 | 5,330,000 | 83,570 | 290,550 | 5,704,120 |
07/08 | 1 | 3,332,805 | 2,370,195 | 5,703,000 | 112,109 | 190,000 | 6,005,109 |
08/09 | 1 | 4,109,000 | 3,005,000 | 7,114,000 | 86,046 | 184,000 | 7,384,046 |
09/10 | 2 | 11,717,657 | 6,854,249 | 18,571,906 | 186,503 | 506,000 | 19,264,409 |
Total | 10 | 40,088,438 | 30,311,632 | 70,400,070 | 1,088,264 | 2,989,171 | 74,477,504 |
Source: NHS LA December 2014
‘Payments’ made in those years requested are not specifically going to be the payments made on the claims reported in the same period i.e. some will relate to claims which had been reported to the NHSLA prior to the ten year period requested here.