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Dept of Health

Answer

Mr. Field: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list for each health authority the expenditure on (a) damages for negligence and (b) out-of-court settlements for each of the last five years. [77305] Mr. Hutton: Until recently, health authority accounts did not separate clinical negligence costs from others made under legal liability and personal injury. We cannot, therefore, give figures going back 5 years. In addition, the accounts do not distinguish between costs incurred through court awarded damages and those arising from out of court settlements. We are, however, able to give details of total clinical negligence costs by health authority (HA) for the last two years, and these are in the table. Health authority total expenses in respect to clinical negligence £000 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 1996-97 1997-98 Health authority code Health authority Haa04c--mc9-340 Haa04c--sc340 QA2 Hillingdon HA (7) (423) QA3 Kensington, Chelsea & 2,016 511 Westminster HA QA4 Enfield & Haringey HA 6,834 362 QA5 Redbridge & Waltham Forest HA -- (111) QA6 Bedfordshire HA -- 500 QA7 Berkshire HA (733) 738 QA8 Buckinghamshire HA 1,108 2,923 QA9 Cambridge & Huntingdon HA -- 624 QAA Bexley & Greenwich HA (480) (1,301) QAC Bromley HA (442) 48 QAD Croydon HA 418 (787) QAE East Kent HA 2,377 1,150 QAF West Kent HA -- 2,199 QAG Kingston & Richmond HA -- 2,327 QAH Lambeth, Southwark & Lewisham 580 98 HA QAJ Merton, Sutton & Wandsworth HA 173 481 QAK East Surrey HA (126) 75 QAL West Surrey HA 1,787 (716) QAM East Sussex, Brighton & Hove HA 202 801 QAN West Sussex HA 965 208 QAP Barking & Havering HA -- 431 QAQ Barnet HA 389 572 QAR Brent & Harrow HA 1,608 508 QAT Camden & Islington HA 1,604 1,222 QAV Ealing, Hammersmith & Hounslow 10 210 HA QAW East London & The City HA 348 1,023 QAX North Essex HA 715 763 QAY South Essex HA 1,144 596 QC1 South Lancashire HA 57 (113) QC2 Liverpool HA 642 (228) QC3 Manchester HA -- 1,193 QC4 Morecambe Bay HA 117 295 QC5 St. Helens & Knowsley HA 1,033 (418) QC6 Salford & Trafford HA -- 979 QC7 Sefton HA 381 174 QC8 Stockport HA -- (1,051) QC9 West Pennine HA -- (124) QCA East Norfolk HA 1,189 1,400 QCC Northamptonshire HA 1,541 1,615 QCD North West Anglia HA 482 403 QCE Oxfordshire HA 1,480 54 QCF Suffolk HA 982 534 QCG Barnsley HA 926 18 QCH North Derbyshire HA 1,269 (343) QCJ South Derbyshire HA (38) 3 QCK Doncaster HA 939 (46) QCL Leicestershire HA -- 780 QCM Lincolnshire HA (360 843 QCN North Nottinghamshire HA 533 419 QCP Nottingham HA 611 347 QCQ Rotherham HA 3,814 1,117 QCR Sheffield HA -- 398 QCT Bury & Rochdale HA -- 491 QCV North Cheshire HA 307 1,179 QCW South Cheshire HA 976 515 QCX East Lancashire HA 682 (2,017) QCY North West Lancashire HA -- 557 QD1 North & Mid Hampshire HA 683 86 QD2 Portsmouth & South East 1,572 602 Hampshire HA QD3 Southampton & South West -- 456 Hampshire HA QD4 Isle of Wight HA 79 31 QD5 Somerset HA 367 201 QD6 South & West Devon HA 3,448 699 QD7 Wiltshire HA -- 41 QD8 Avon HA 371 684 QD9 Birmingham HA 3,577 2,526 QDA Wigan & Bolton HA -- 1,892 QDC Wirral HA 635 309 QDD Bradford HA 3,757 202 QDE County Durham HA 1,318 1,008 QDF East Riding HA 1,441 420 QDG Gateshead & South Tyneside HA 697 82 QDH Leeds HA 1,315 1,810 QDJ Newcastle & North Tyneside HA 5,957 -- QDK North Cumbria HA -- 539 QDL South Humber HA (586) 968 QDM Northumberland HA -- 122 QDN Sunderland HA 52 980 QDP Tees HA 2,272 1,293 QDQ Wakefield HA 1,374 (652) QDR North Yorkshire HA 526 264 QDT Calderdale & Kirklees HA -- 245 QDV Cornwall & Isles of Scilly HA -- 1,064 QDW Dorset HA 543 (578) QDX North & East Devon HA 183 294 QDY Gloucestershire HA 497 217 QEA Coventry HA QEC Dudley HA 688 2,196 QED Herefordshire HA (35) 149 QEE Sandwell HA 521 514 QEF Shropshire HA 698 562 QEG Solihull HA -- 919 QEH North Staffordshire HA 435 1,667 QEJ South Staffordshire HA -- 594 QEK Walsall HA 403 227 QEL Warwickshire HA -- (261) QEM Wolverhampton HA 800 85 QEN Worcestershire HA -- 236 QEP East & North Hertfordshire HA 342 216 QEQ West Hertfordshire HA 2,298 498 Total 74,281 47,688 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Notes: 1. Clinical Negligence was not separately identified in the accounts prior to 1997-98 2. Figures in brackets are where over provision has been made in previous years accounts Source: Health Authority Annual Accounts 1997-98

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

77305; 327 c742-3W

Session

1998-99

Subjects

Damages Expenditure Health authorities Misconduct NHS Negligence Medicine

Contains statistics

Yes