Roger Godsiff – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Roger Godsiff on 2016-01-21.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much compensation the NHS has paid to patients who were injured by healthcare carried out by private contractors in each of the last five years.
Ben Gummer
The Department does not hold this information centrally; the answer has been supplied by the National Health Service Litigation Authority (NHS LA).
The table below shows all payments made on claims against private providers as at 31 December 2015 (open and closed claims) for payment years 2010/11 to 2014/15.
|
Year of Payment |
Damages £ |
Defence Costs £ |
Claimant Costs £ |
Total Paid £ |
|
2010/11 |
3,213,372 |
378,903 |
1,251,698 |
4,843,973 |
|
Total |
32,917,760 |
3,773,610 |
15,230,871 |
51,922,241 |
Source: NHSLA
Date: January 2016
Prior to that date indemnity cover was provided by the referring National Health Service body. Since 1 April 2013 independent providers have been directly eligible for membership of the clinical negligence scheme for trusts. The figures in the table represent all private provider claims for each of the last five years.
