NHS: Negligence

(asked on 6th September 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Answer of 11 September 2020 to Question 88854, how much NHS Resolution spent on medication errors in the 2020-21 financial year.


Answered by
Maria Caulfield Portrait
Maria Caulfield
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
This question was answered on 23rd September 2021

The following table shows the total value of payments made by NHS Resolution for damages and legal costs in respect of medication errors in 2020/21.

Financial Year

Total costs

2020/21

£16,884,155

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