The information requested is in the following four tables. The National Health Service Litigation Authority supplied the data.
NHS litigation authority notification year Trust name 2004-05 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 Total Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals NHS Trust 39 31 30 20 120 North West London Hospitals NHS Trust 49 45 36 25 155 Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust 25 20 30 21 96 Total 113 96 96 66 371
Settlement year Trust name 2004-05 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 Total Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals NHS Trust 36 41 32 23 132 North West London Hospitals NHS Trust 42 37 42 32 153 Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust 28 30 20 21 99 Total 106 108 94 76 384
Settlement year Trust name 2004-05 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 Total Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals NHS Trust 23 25 19 15 82 North West London Hospitals NHS Trust 30 22 28 24 104 Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust 17 20 12 13 62 Total 70 67 59 52 248
Trust name Payment year Damages Defence costs Claimant costs Total Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals NHS Trust 2004-05 3,447,834 391,034 1,222,274 5,061,142 2005-06 2,153,553 402,769 296,592 2,852,914 2006-07 1,766,719 520,499 924,756 3,211,973 2007-08 1,517,518 157,136 730,610 2,405,264 Total 8,885,624 1,471,438 3,174,231 13,531,293 North West London Hospitals NHS Trust 2004-05 1,419,276 353,864 1,367,983 3,141,123 2005-06 1,188,597 300,782 259,845 1,749,224 2006-07 3,784,051 255,398 635,811 4,675,260 2007-08 1,147,351 177,009 402,128 1,726,488 Total 7,539,275 1,087,053 2,665,767 11,292,095 Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust 2004-05 1,729,388 518,411 240,671 2,488,470 2005-06 1,272,601 353,396 907,132 2,533,129 2006-07 1,064,319 170,952 852,721 2,087,992 2007-08 1,887,016 231,123 304,736 2,422,875 Total 5,953,324 1,273,882 2,305,259 9,532,465 Notes: 1. The NHS Litigation Authority holds data at a trust level rather than hospital level. Data are therefore provided for the whole trust rather than for an individual hospital as requested. 2. The claims received refer to the year in which a claim was received and not the year the incident occurred. 3. Additional data have been provided to include not just the number of claims settled, but also the number of claims settled with damages. 4. The number of claims in a particular year for a trust will not necessarily be the same as the number of claims settled in the same year as claims can take a number of years to settle.