Clinical negligence claims in the maternity sector
Dear Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust,
I would like to make the following Freedom of Information request:
Please provide me with an annual breakdown of the total number successful clinical negligence claims made against the trust in the maternity sector and the total value of the damages paid out in the maternity sector, broken down at a site-level.
I am specifically requesting the information at a site-level, not at the trust-level. That means the data you provide should be broken down by individual sites - e.g. separate data for a hospital the trust manages, as well as a midwife-led unit.
Please indicate if a site is a midwife-led unit i.e. freestanding from a hospital.
Please provide this data for the latest five years for which it is available.
The data could be provided to me in the format of two tables, one for total number of claims and a second for the total value of damages. Each row would represent a site, and each column would be a year.
Yours faithfully,
Alex Clark
Dear Alex
Thank you for your request for information made under the Freedom of
Information Act 2000, as detailed in your email below. Your request was
received on 22^nd September 2022 and we are treating it under Section 1.1
of the Act.
We have 20 working days to respond to your request from the day after we
received your email into the Trust and will do so by 20^th October 2022.
Your request reference number is RFI 010196.
If you have any queries about your request, please contact us at
[1][Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust request email]
Kind regards
Joanne
Joanne Sturdy
Information Governance Officer
Department for Information Governance, Caldicott & SIRO Support
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Royal Hallamshire Hospital
2 Claremont Place
Sheffield
S10 2TB
Tel: 0114 226 5151
email: [2][email address]
"This e-mail and any files transmitted with it are confidential and
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Trust unless otherwise explicitly stated. The information contained in
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Dear Alex
Further to your recent email acknowledged by the Trust on 23^rd September
2022.
We had originally stated that we would respond to your request by 20^th
October 2022. Please accept our apologies as we are unable to meet the
deadline as we are still awaiting some of the information requested from
the service/directorate.
We would hope however that the delay will not be too long and will
endeavour to have the information with you as soon as possible.
Should you have any questions or comments on the situation, please do not
hesitate to get in touch.
Kind regards
Joanne
Joanne Sturdy
Information Governance Officer
Department for Information Governance, Caldicott & SIRO Support
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Royal Hallamshire Hospital
2 Claremont Place
Sheffield
S10 2TB
Tel: 0114 226 5151
email: [1][email address]
"This e-mail and any files transmitted with it are confidential and
intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are
addressed. Any views or opinions expressed are those of the author and do
not represent the views of the Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation
Trust unless otherwise explicitly stated. The information contained in
this e-mail may be subject to public disclosure under the Freedom of
Information Act 2000. Unless the information is legally exempt from
disclosure, the confidentiality of this e-mail and your reply cannot be
guaranteed. If you have received this message in error, please notify me
and remove it from your system".
From: FOI (SHEFFIELD TEACHING HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST)
Sent: 23 September 2022 08:48
To: '[FOI #900997 email]'
<[FOI #900997 email]>
Subject: FW: Freedom of Information request - Clinical negligence claims
in the maternity sector - Ref: RFI 010196
Dear Alex
Thank you for your request for information made under the Freedom of
Information Act 2000, as detailed in your email below. Your request was
received on 22^nd September 2022 and we are treating it under Section 1.1
of the Act.
We have 20 working days to respond to your request from the day after we
received your email into the Trust and will do so by 20^th October 2022.
Your request reference number is RFI 010196.
If you have any queries about your request, please contact us at
[2][Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust request email]
Kind regards
Joanne
Joanne Sturdy
Information Governance Officer
Department for Information Governance, Caldicott & SIRO Support
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Royal Hallamshire Hospital
2 Claremont Place
Sheffield
S10 2TB
Tel: 0114 226 5151
email: [3][email address]
"This e-mail and any files transmitted with it are confidential and
intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are
addressed. Any views or opinions expressed are those of the author and do
not represent the views of the Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation
Trust unless otherwise explicitly stated. The information contained in
this e-mail may be subject to public disclosure under the Freedom of
Information Act 2000. Unless the information is legally exempt from
disclosure, the confidentiality of this e-mail and your reply cannot be
guaranteed. If you have received this message in error, please notify me
and remove it from your system".
Dear Alex
Please find enclosed herewith our response to your request for
information, made under the Freedom of Information Act.
Please accept our sincere apologies for the delay in sending our response.
Kind regards
Joanne
Joanne Sturdy
Information Governance Officer
Department for Information Governance, Caldicott & SIRO Support
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Royal Hallamshire Hospital
2 Claremont Place
Sheffield
S10 2TB
Tel: 0114 226 5151
email: [1][email address]
"This e-mail and any files transmitted with it are confidential and
intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are
addressed. Any views or opinions expressed are those of the author and do
not represent the views of the Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation
Trust unless otherwise explicitly stated. The information contained in
this e-mail may be subject to public disclosure under the Freedom of
Information Act 2000. Unless the information is legally exempt from
disclosure, the confidentiality of this e-mail and your reply cannot be
guaranteed. If you have received this message in error, please notify me
and remove it from your system".
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