HC Deb 18 March 1999 vol 327 cc742-4W
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
Health authority code Health authority 1996–97 Haa04c—mc9–340 1997–98 Haa04c—sc340
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 Hampshire HA 1,572 602
QD3 Southampton & South West Hampshire HA — 456
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