Source · Clinical negligence

NHS Resolution: Wirral Community Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust

Claims are counts, and payment amounts relate to the reporting year. Trust size, case mix and the time between an incident, claim and settlement affect comparisons; these figures are not a measure of current clinical risk.

6 years covered

Annual claims, damages, and legal costs per NHS trust. Covers the Clinical Negligence Scheme for Trusts (CNST), Existing Liabilities Scheme (ELS), and Risk Pooling Scheme for Trusts (RPST). Source: NHS Resolution Annual Statistics.

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Claims and costs over time

All indexed years · all schemes

Charts cover all indexed years, regardless of the record-year filter. The selected trust and the national total are shown separately in the legend. Amounts are £ millions; gaps mean no amount is indexed.

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Wirral Community Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust

Selected trust · all indexed years · all schemes
Year	New claims	Damages (£m)	Total cost (£m)
2019-20	0	0.37989999999999996	0.37989999999999996
2020-21	5	0.1436	0.1436
2021-22	5	0.10890000000000001	0.10890000000000001
2022-23	0	0.1316	0.1316
2023-24	0	0.33039999999999997	0.33039999999999997
2024-25	0	0.01	0.01

National · all indexed years · all schemes
Year	New claims	Damages (£m)	Total cost (£m)
2019-20	12529	2198.5516000000002	2198.5516000000002
2020-21	10765	2062.3311	2062.3311
2021-22	10577	2205.8146	2205.8146
2022-23	11169	2382.1497999999997	2382.1497999999997
2023-24	14624	2580.5132999999996	2580.5132999999996
2024-25	11859	2799.5842000000002	2799.5842000000002

Fifteen trusts with the highest total damages

All indexed years · trusts with at least ten new claims. The selected trust is highlighted if it falls within this group. This is a comparison of payment totals, without adjustment for size or case mix.

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Trust	Damages (£m)
Barts Health NHS Trust	346.2
Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust	278.4
Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust	252.4
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust	250.5
Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust	245.9
University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust	245.6
King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	233.6
University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust	226.1
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust	224.1
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust	215.4
Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust	200.1
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust	198.2
Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust	190.4
University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust	181.8
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust	181.6

Trust records

7 records · Wirral Community Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust

Trust	Year	Scheme	ODS	New claims	Damages	Legal costs
Wirral Community NHS Foundation Trust	2024-25	CNST+ELS+RPST	RY7	0	£10k	£0k
Wirral Community NHS Foundation Trust	2023-24	CNST+ELS+RPST	RY7	0	£0k	£0k
Wirral Community NHS Trust	2023-24	CNST+ELS+RPST	RY7	0	£330k	£0k
Wirral Community NHS Trust	2022-23	CNST+ELS+RPST	RY7	0	£132k	£0k
Wirral Community NHS Trust	2021-22	CNST+ELS+RPST	RY7	5	£109k	£0k
Wirral Community NHS Trust	2020-21	CNST+ELS+RPST	RY7	5	£144k	£0k
Wirral Community NHS Trust	2019-20	CNST+ELS+RPST	RY7	0	£380k	£0k

Data from NHS Resolution Annual Statistics.

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