NHS: Compensation
(asked on 22nd November 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much the NHS has paid in compensation to people receiving a misdiagnosis for their (a) mental and (b) physical illness in each of the last five years.
The information requested is not held by the Department. The data has been provided by the NHS Litigation Authority (NHSLA).
The question has been interpreted to refer to clinical payments in the years for 2011/12 to 2015/16 (as at 30 October 2016) where one of the causes was ‘wrong diagnosis’. The category of ‘Mental Illness’ covers the specialties of ‘psychiatry/mental health’ and ‘community mental health’. ‘Physical Illness’ covers all other specialties. ‘Compensation’ has been interpreted to refer to damages. The data relates to payments in year and therefore the incident year and/or notification year of the claims within the cohort could fall in years prior to the payment year.
The table below shows how much the NHS has paid in compensation to people receiving a misdiagnosis for their mental and physical illness in each of the last five years.
Year of Payment | Mental Illness | Physical Illness |
2015/16 | £2,000 | £7,971,762 |
2014/15 | £0 | £13,469,367 |
2013/14 | £3,500 | £9,593,602 |
2012/13 | £0 | £5,330,006 |
2011/12 | £0 | £5,772,947 |
Source: NHS LA
Date: November 2016