FOI 25-017 Medical Negligence Claims
Freedom of Information Request
- Reference
- FOI 25-017 Medical Negligence Claims
- Request Date
- 08 Jan 2025
- Response Date
- 16 Jan 2025
- Information Requested
Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, please can you provide me with information on:
1.) How much money has been paid out in medical negligence pay-outs by your Trust? I would like the figures for the following financial years: 2018/19, 2019/20, 2020/21, 2021/22, 2022/23, 2023/24
This includes payments to both patients and relatives of patients.
The information also relates to the year that the compensation payment were paid out, and the year that other costs were paid – regardless of whether the claim was submitted or related to an incident at an earlier time.
2.) How many medical negligence pay-outs have been made by your Trust? I would like the figures for the following financial years: 2018/19, 2019/20, 2020/21, 2021/22, 2022/23, 2023/24
This includes payments to both patients and relatives of patients.
The information also relates to the year that the compensation payment were paid out, and the year that other costs were paid – regardless of whether the claim was submitted or related to an incident at an earlier time.
- Response
We note that you have referenced FOIA 2000, please note the Scottish Ambulance Service is responding under FOISA 2002 (Freedom of Information Scotland Act 2002).
This information is readily available under FOI 24-395 published on our website; foi-24-395-medical-negligence-payouts.pdf.
Please see the sheet attached that includes the figures for 2018/2019.
For the given data, you will see that some of the figures are shown as less than five, please note that this figure has been suppressed because the statistical value is less than five. The Scottish Ambulance service has a duty, under the Data Protection Act to avoid directly or indirectly revealing any personal details. It is therefore widely understood that provision of statistics on small numbers, five or less are statistically suppressed upon disclosure.
- Response Documents
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FOI 25 017 Medical Negligence Payouts 2018 2019 (XLS | 29KB)
