Maternity Services: Negligence

(asked on 23rd March 2017) - View Source
Questioner
Tim Farron Portrait
Tim Farron
(Liberal Democrat - Westmorland and Lonsdale)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many successful negligence claims against NHS England maternity services there have been in each year since 2012; and what estimate he has made of the cost of such claims to NHS England in each such year.

Answered by
Philip Dunne Portrait
Philip Dunne
This question was answered on 28th March 2017

PHILIP DUNNE

The NHS Litigation Authority (NHSLA) collects data by specialty. Although maternity is not listed as a specialty, Obstetrics specialty data is collected.

The following table shows the number of successful negligence claims against the National Health Service and the cost of such claims.

Closure Year

Number. of Claims

Total Estimate

(Settlement Year for Periodical Payment Orders)

(total paid and an estimate of
total damages for claims settling as Periodical Payment Orders)

2012/13

709

£713,275,314

2013/14

651

£717,281,270

2014/15

690

£629,835,417

2015/16

610

£692,266,887

Source: NHSLA

Date: March 2017

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