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Negligence: Greater London

Volume 471: debated on Monday 4 February 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many (a) claims and (b) settlements for clinical negligence (i) were made in each of the last three years and (ii) have been made in 2007-08 for cases arising from (A) Barnet and Chase Farm, (B) Royal Free and (C) Northwick Park hospitals; and how much compensation was paid by each hospital in each year. (179054)

The information requested is in the following four tables. The National Health Service Litigation Authority supplied the data.

Number of clinical negligence claims received by the NHS Litigation Authority 2004-05 to 2007-08 as at 31 December 2007 for specified trusts

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

Number of clinical negligence claims settled 2004-05 to 2007-08 as at 31 December 2007 for specified trusts

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

Number of clinical negligence claims settled with damages 2004-05 to 2007-08 as at 31 December 2007 for specified trusts

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

Clinical negligence payments for specified trusts 2004-05 to 2007-08 as at 31 December 2007 by year of payment

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.