Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord O’Shaughnessy on 23 February (HL 5443), what disease or procedure level analysis of NHS negligence claims is held by the Department of Health or the NHS Litigation Authority.

The National Health Service Litigation Authority (NHS LA) has a claims management database which was primarily designed to manage claims. The NHS LA is able to undertake an analysis of claims where there is a specific cause code of a disease or procedure on its claims management system. Sometimes this can be a code which relates to a general group of conditions within a specific speciality, and therefore it is not always possible to undertake analysis of all claims at individual disease or procedure level. It should also be noted that claims can be multi-factorial and/or settled on a number of bases.