Vaccine Damage Payments claims monthly data

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Dear NHS Business Services Authority,

Pleaae can you make the following dataaet available, broken down by month of claim, preferably in a spreadsheep or CSV format:

- The number of VDPS claims relating to COVID-19 vaccines.
- Of those claims, how many were medically assessed.
- Any sucessful claims.
- Any rejected claims.

Yours faithfully,

Matt Cooper

FOIREQUESTS, Nhsbsa (NHS BUSINESS SERVICES AUTHORITY),

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Dear Mr Cooper,

 

Thank you for your request for information as outlined below:

 

Pleaae can you make the following dataaet available, broken down by month
of claim, preferably in a spreadsheep or CSV format:

 

- The number of VDPS claims relating to COVID-19 vaccines.

- Of those claims, how many were medically assessed.

- Any sucessful claims.

- Any rejected claims.

 

Your request was received on 10 March 2022 and I am dealing with it under
the terms of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

 

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FOIREQUESTS, Nhsbsa (NHS BUSINESS SERVICES AUTHORITY),

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Dear Matt Cooper

 

Thank you for your request for information about the following:

 

Please can you make the following dataset available, broken down by month
of claim, preferably in a spreadsheet or CSV format: -

 1. The number of VDPS claims relating to COVID-19 vaccines.
 2. Of those claims, how many were medically assessed.
 3. Any successful claims.
 4. Any rejected claims.

 

Your request was received on 10 March 2022 and has been dealt with under
the terms of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

 

Response

 

Question 1

 

The total number of VDPS claims relating to COVID-19 vaccines as of 25
March 2022 is 1,210.

 

Monthly figure breakdown can be found in the attached data. However,
please be aware that I have decided not to release the number of claims
where the monthly total number of claims falls below 5.  This is because
the patients could be identified, when combined with other information
that may be in the public domain or reasonably available. Where this
applies, we’ve merged figures for multiple months to ensure we don’t
provide the exact monthly number.

 

This information falls under the exemption in section 40 subsections 2 and
3A (a) of the Freedom of Information Act.

 

This is because it would breach the first data protection principle as:

 

 a. it is not fair to disclose patients’ personal details to the world and
is likely to cause damage or distress.
 b. these details are not of sufficient interest to the public to warrant
an intrusion into the privacy of the patients.

Please click the below web link to see the exemption in full.

 

[1]https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/200...

 

Breach of Patient confidentiality

 

Please note that the identification of patients is also a breach of the
common law duty of confidence.  A patient who has been identified could
make a claim against the NHSBSA or yourself for the disclosure of the
confidential information.

 

The information requested is therefore being withheld as it falls under
the exemption in section 41(1) ‘Information provided in confidence’ of the
Freedom of Information Act.

 

Please click the below web link to see the exemption in full.

 

[2]https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/200...

 

Questions 2 & 3

 

The COVID-19 vaccines are very new and the global effort to establish any
potential causal relationship between the vaccines and their potential
adverse effects is not straightforward and has taken time. Claims relating
to Covid-19 vaccines have not yet been medically assessed, therefore there
have been no payments made to date.

 

Question 4

There have been fewer than 5 claims rejected due to those claims falling
outside the eligibility criteria. Therefore this information is being
withheld under the same exemption outlined in the response to question 1
above.

 

Please note that this request and our response is published on our Freedom
of Information disclosure log at:

 

[3]https://opendata.nhsbsa.net/dataset/foi-...

 

Data Queries

 

If you have any queries regarding the data provided, or if you plan on
publishing the data, please contact [4][NHSBSA request email] ensuring
you quote the above reference. This is important to ensure that the
figures are not misunderstood or misrepresented.

 

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ensure that the figures are not misunderstood or misrepresented.

 

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Chris Gooday

Information Governance Manager

NHS Business Services Authority

Stella House

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Newcastle upon Tyne

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