NHS: Negligence

(asked on 5th January 2022) - View Source

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.


Answered by
Maria Caulfield Portrait
Maria Caulfield
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
This question was answered on 11th January 2022

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

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