NHS: Negligence
(asked on 20th July 2021) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they will provide the information set out in figure 16 on page 55 of the NHS Resolution annual report and accounts 2020/21 in respect of clinical negligence cases only for the year 2020/21.
This question was answered on 29th July 2021
The information requested is shown in the following table.
Settlement type | Total number of clinical negligence claims | Number of claims settled with damages | Number of claims settled with No damages | Percentage of all claims settled, with damages | Percentage of all claims settled, no damages |
No proceedings | 8,941 | 4,568 | 4,373 | 37.94% | 36.32% |
Proceedings | 3,066 | 2,478 | 588 | 20.58% | 4.88% |
Trial | 34 | 10 | 24 | 0.08% | 0.2% |