In the past five years alone, NHS Resolution, which manages negligence claims, has spent over £12bn on payouts – £2.4bn of which has been spent on claimants’ legal fees. “If we can reduce ...

The NHS paid out £376,478,329 in damages and legal fees for 1,207 claims related to medical misdiagnoses according to a new Freedom of Information request to NHS Resolution by Patient Claim Line.

A Teesside NHS trust had to pay out almost £4m to patients over a five-year period for claims of misdiagnosis. The North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust made the payouts in 29 cases ...

The figures from NHS Resolution, an arm’s length body of the Department of Health and Social Care, revealed that additional operations were the most common outcome for misdiagnoses claims ...

Skin cancer patients are set to be fast-tracked into a clinical trial for a new cancer vaccine, NHS England has announced. The vaccine, called iSCIB1+, is designed to help the immune system better ...

The claims are handled and paid for by NHS Resolution, formerly known as NHS ... led to £1,345,722 in compensation. These figures form part of a wider national picture, with 8,067 claims having ...

received £734,112 under the Maternity Incentive Scheme run by NHS Resolution, the health service’s insurance arm. The scheme offers a financial incentive to improve maternity safety within NHS ...

That was followed by cancer, which saw 12 claims submitted. According to NHS Resolution, which settles litigation claims on behalf of NHS trusts, diagnostic errors contribute around 20% of all ...

The NHS Trusts do not pay this money directly, this comes from NHS Resolution, an arm’s-length body of the Department of Health and Social Care. However, Dorset County Hospital (DCH ...

MK Hospital NHS Trust has had to pay out millions to patients to compensate for surgery blunders over the past six years. Did you know with an ad-lite subscription to Milton Keynes Citizen, you get 70 ...

The data was obtained by Medical Negligence Assist, a company providing legal support to victims of medical errors, following freedom of information requests sent to NHS Resolution, the body which ...

Re: Arrangements for NHS urgent primary dental care ... this is a wider form of ongoing care which is usually encapsulated in band 2 and 3 claims. It therefore goes beyond the resolution of the ...