Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 23 September 2021 to Question 43518 on NHS: Negligence, how much NHS Resolution spent on medication errors in (a) hospitals and (b) GP surgeries in the financial year 2020-21.
The information is not held in the format requested as NHS Resolution indemnify their members under various schemes between primary and secondary care. However, the following table shows the total value of payments made by NHS Resolution for damages and legal costs for medication errors in secondary care and primary care in England in 2020/21.
Type | Damages paid | National Health Service legal costs | Claimant legal costs | Total costs |
Secondary care | £5,773,001 | £839,761 | £10,155,919 | £16,768,681 |
Primary care | £38,140 | £13,792 | £63,541 | £115,474 |