NHS: Negligence
(asked on 23rd February 2015) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much has been spent by the NHS on obstetrics litigation in each year since 2010.
This question was answered on 2nd March 2015
The NHS Litigation Authority (NHS LA) handles clinical negligence claims on behalf of its members under the Clinical Negligence Scheme for Trusts (CNST). Currently, all National Health Service trusts in England are members of the CNST.
The information is shown in the following table.
Payments made by the NHS LA on Obstetrics claims, 2010-14 (as at 31 January 2015)
Payment Year | Total (£) |
2010/11 | 329,981,439 |
2011/12 | 555,619,839 |
2012/13 | 506,249,276 |
2013/14 | 459,545,214 |
Source: NHS LA