Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the amount recovered from third party insurers for NHS treatment under the NHS Injury Recovery Scheme by each Ambulance Service NHS Trust in each of the last five years for which figures are available; and how much of that amount which is recoverable remains outstanding.
The information requested is provided in the following tables. These reflect the total actual amount recovered by each National Health Service ambulance service trust in each of the last five financial years.
The Department does not hold information centrally on the value of outstanding claims which may or may not result in the recovery of treatment costs.
Income Paid through the NHS Injury Cost Recovery Scheme - 2011-12 to 2015-16
Ambulance trust | 2011-12 | 2012-13 | 2013-14 | 2014-15 | 2015-16 |
| £’s | £’s | £’s | £’s | £’s |
East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust | 656,861 | 688,212 | 663,968 | 600,224 | 559,620 |
East Of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust | 825,995 | 849,655 | 840,695 | 782,980 | 726,208 |
Great Western Ambulance Service NHS Trust4 | 353,508 | 275,937 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Isle Of Wight Ambulance Trust | 18,698 | 20,362 | 17,823 | 17,380 | 13,813 |
London Ambulance Service NHS Trust | 1,374,872 | 1,460,299 | 1,465,112 | 1,320,319 | 1,207,950 |
North East Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust1 | 475,599 | 459,460 | 475,915 | 431,953 | 368,392 |
North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust | 1,484,797 | 1,512,538 | 1,500,278 | 1,379,179 | 1,271,433 |
South Central Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust5 | 496,678 | 526,620 | 517,342 | 483,225 | 464,780 |
South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust2 | 767,105 | 794,765 | 818,365 | 748,918 | 683,020 |
South Western Ambulance Service NHS Trust | 384,553 | 475,372 | 746,006 | 683,991 | 649,199 |
West Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust3 | 976,973 | 995,372 | 992,941 | 894,948 | 859,734 |
Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust | 1,037,224 | 1,046,837 | 1,013,513 | 960,496 | 933,345 |
Total | 8,852,862 | 9,105,429 | 9,051,958 | 8,303,614 | 7,737,495 |
Notes:
1 North East Ambulance Service NHS Trust became a foundation trust in October 2011.
2 South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Trust became a foundation trust in May 2012.
3 West Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust became a foundation trust in January 2013.
4 Great Western Ambulance Service NHS Trust merged with South Western Ambulance Service NHS Trust in February 2013.
5South Central Ambulance Trust became a foundation trust in October 2013.