Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the total value of compensation paid for emergency medicine negligence claims has been in each of the last three years.

NHS Resolution (NHSR) manages clinical negligence and other claims against the National Health Service in England. NHSR publishes data for payments made for their clinical schemes in their Supplementary Annual Statistics (SAS), which are available at the following link:

Supplementary-Annual-Statistics-NHS-Resolution-2024-25-ACC-CHECKED-V4.xlsx.

These tables include payments made in each relevant year for damages and legal costs, and average damages and legal costs.

Please note that the values for payments reported for each year in the SAS will be different from those reported in the Annual Report and Accounts (ARA). One of the differences is that our SAS dataset will take into account the periodical payment order (PPO) payments paid after the settlement year, the ARA will not. Future PPO payments, due after 31 March 2025 are not included in the data provided to this request.

Sheet 6 of the Additional Annual Statistics shows the total damages value of settled clinical claims by speciality as of 31 March 2025, including ‘Emergency Medicine’. The Additional Annual Statistics are available at the following link:

https://view.officeapps.live.com/op/view.aspx?src=https%3A%2F%2Fresolution.nhs.uk%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2025%2F11%2FAdditional-Annual-Statistics-NHS-Resolution-2024_25-ACC-CHECKEDv2.xlsx&wdOrigin=BROWSELINK

There is a detailed explanatory note which sets out the detail of what the damages value covers.

Also, in 2022 NHSR published a thematic review about learning from emergency medicine compensation claims, which can be found at the following link:

https://resolution.nhs.uk/2022/03/28/learning-from-emergency-medicine-compensation-claims/