Clinical negligence information

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Dear Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust,

I’m writing to obtain the following information relating specifically to your NHS Trust under the Freedom of Information Act 2000:

1. What is the number of serious incident reviews relating to clinical negligence at your hospitals in 2016, 2017 and 2018?

2. What is the monetary value of successful clinical negligence claims made against your hospitals in 2016, 2017 and 2018?

3. In the last three years (2016, 2017 & 2018), what is the number of settled negligence claims where damages have been paid (number of cases and total monetary value) in relation to:
- Allegations of late diagnosis / misdiagnosis
- Allegations of negligence leading to amputation
- Cases involving stillbirth or neonatal death
- Cases involving delayed diagnosis of cancer
- Cases involving medication errors
- Legal cases alleging clinical negligence which have taken more than 5 years to reach

If you need clarification on any of these questions, please let me know.

Yours faithfully,

Will Dale

FOI, Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust

Dear Will

Freedom of Information Ref 139.2019

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FOI Office
Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust
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FOI, Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust

Dear Will

 

Further to your recent FOI request, please find below the response from
Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust.

 

If you are unhappy with this response you have the right to access our
complaints procedure; please contact the Company Secretary, Huddersfield
Royal Infirmary, Lindley, Huddersfield HD3 3EA.  [1][email address]

                             

If you remain dissatisfied with the handling of your request or complaint,
you have a right to appeal to the Information Commissioner at:

 

The Information Commissioner's Office

Wycliffe House

Water Lane

Wilmslow

Cheshire, SK9 5AF

Telephone: 0303 123 1113  

Website: [2]www.ico.gov.uk

                      

FOI Office

Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust

E:[email address]

 

CHFT RESPONSE

 

1. What is the number of serious incident reviews relating to clinical
negligence at your hospitals in 2016, 2017 and 2018?

Do not record on Datix if claim is as a result of SI.  Datix shows number
linked to an incident but cannot tell what type of incident. 

 

2. What is the monetary value of successful clinical negligence claims
made against your hospitals in 2016, 2017 and 2018?

Total damages paid for years requested are as follows:

2016 - £65,000

2017 - £57,000

2018 - £14,500

 

3. In the last three years (2016, 2017 & 2018), what is the number of
settled negligence claims where damages have been paid (number of cases
and total monetary value) in relation to:

- Allegations of late diagnosis / misdiagnosis

12 (including the 3 for delayed diagnosis cancer)

- Allegations of negligence leading to amputation

Not included in our categories

- Cases involving stillbirth or neonatal death

2

- Cases involving delayed diagnosis of cancer

3

- Cases involving medication errors

0

- Legal cases alleging clinical negligence which have taken more than 5
years to reach

4

 

 

 

 

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