NHS: Negligence
(asked on 12th March 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many medical negligence court cases were settled by the NHS in each year between 2007 and 2017; and what was the total cost of those cases.
This question was answered on 22nd March 2018
NHS Resolution handles clinical negligence claims on behalf of National Health Service organisations and independent sector providers of NHS care in England.
NHS Resolution has provided the following information.
A table showing the number of clinical claims closed or settled as a Periodical Payment Order between 2007/08 and 2016/17 which have gone to trial as at 28 February 2018, is attached due to the size of the data.