NHS Negligence Counting the Cost

NHS NEGLIGENCE counting the cost t NHS treatment Claims 16,000 The NHS treats 1 million 3.00 patients made a medical negligence claim in 2013 people every 36 hours Preventable deaths NHS litigation budget 1 in 20 +++ £22 billion deaths has a greater than 50% equivalent to about a fifth of the health service's annual budget has been set aside to pay compensation chance of being preventable Top 5 medical negligence claims and the cost to the NHS (since the scheme begin in 1995) Surgery Obstetrics & Accident & Mental Gynaecology Medicine Emergency Health 33,207 claims £3.2 million 15,439 claims £2.3 million 10,242 claims £1.2 million 2,190 claims £233k 16,262 claims £7 million © Wright Hassall 2014 Infographic free to use with a hyperlink back to: www.wrighthassall.co.uk WRIGHT HASSALL Sources: 1.http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/10189204/Jaw-dropping-rise-in-NHS-claims-after-scandals.html 2.http://www.nhsla.com/currentactivity/documents/NHS%20LA%20factsheet%203%20-%20claims%20informatio n%202012-13.pdf 3. www.nhs.uk/news/2012/07july/pages/one-in-twenty-hospital-deaths-preventable.aspx 4. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/nhs/10569745/Multi-billion- pound-NHS-compensation-bill-must-be-slashed.html www.wrighthassall.co.uk Iulmlmlunlulmlululm