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NHS Resolution: Clinical Negligence

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.

222 NHS trusts 6 years covered £2799.6M payouts (2024-25) 11,859 claims (2024-25)

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.

NHS trusts received 11,859 new clinical negligence claims in 2024-25, with £2799.6M in damages paid. · Damages paid divided by new claims: £236k. Payments and new claims may concern different cases; this is not the average settlement value. · New claims down 18.9% year-on-year (2023-24 to 2024-25). · Over 6 years (2019-20 to 2024-25): 71,523 new claims and £14.2bn in recorded damages paid.

Trust records

1,430 records
Trust Year Scheme ODS New claims Damages Legal costs
Luton and Dunstable Hospital NHS Foundation Trust 2019-20 CNST+ELS+RPST RC9 60 £10,873k £0k
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust 2019-20 CNST+ELS+RPST RWF 82 £12,180k £0k
Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust 2019-20 CNST+ELS+RPST ROA 222 £17,492k £0k
Medway NHS Foundation Trust 2019-20 CNST+ELS+RPST RPA 82 £20,706k £0k
Mersey Care NHS Trust 2019-20 CNST+ELS+RPST RW4 60 £2,202k £0k
Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust 2019-20 CNST+ELS+RPST RBT 51 £9,370k £0k
Mid Essex Hospital Services NHS Trust 2019-20 CNST+ELS+RPST RQ8 76 £13,639k £0k
Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust 2019-20 CNST+ELS+RPST RRE 31 £878k £0k
Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust 2019-20 CNST+ELS+RPST RXF 144 £16,173k £0k
Milton Keynes Hospital NHS Foundation Trust 2019-20 CNST+ELS+RPST RD8 42 £10,334k £0k
Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust 2019-20 CNST+ELS+RPST RP6 24 £507k £0k
NHS Blood and Transplant 2019-20 CNST+ELS+RPST T1460 10 £3,233k £0k
NHS Business Services Authority 2019-20 CNST+ELS+RPST T1450 0 £0k £0k
NHS Digital 2019-20 CNST+ELS+RPST HIC033 0 £6k £0k
NHS Property Company Limited 2019-20 CNST+ELS+RPST NPS033 64 £2,073k £0k
NHS Resolution 2019-20 CNST+ELS+RPST T1150 0 £0k £0k
NHS Supply Chain 2019-20 CNST+ELS+RPST N/A 0 £0k £0k
Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust 2019-20 CNST+ELS+RPST RMY 15 £923k £0k
Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust 2019-20 CNST+ELS+RPST RY3 11 £337k £0k
Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust 2019-20 CNST+ELS+RPST RNS 62 £6,901k £0k
Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust 2019-20 CNST+ELS+RPST RP1 21 £1,187k £0k
North Bristol NHS Trust 2019-20 CNST+ELS+RPST RVJ 110 £21,617k £0k
North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust 2019-20 CNST+ELS+RPST RNN 102 £6,177k £0k
North East Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust 2019-20 CNST+ELS+RPST RX6 29 £609k £0k
North East London NHS Foundation Trust 2019-20 CNST+ELS+RPST RAT 35 £3,672k £0k
Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust 2019-20 CNST+ELS+RPST RBZ 33 £12,912k £0k
Northern Lincolnshire and Goole Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust 2019-20 CNST+ELS+RPST RJL 94 £14,662k £0k
North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust 2019-20 CNST+ELS+RPST RAP 50 £24,910k £0k
North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust 2019-20 CNST+ELS+RPST RLY 0 £44k £0k
North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust 2019-20 CNST+ELS+RPST RVW 72 £10,676k £0k
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust 2019-20 CNST+ELS+RPST RTF 72 £5,326k £0k
North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust 2019-20 CNST+ELS+RPST RX7 74 £1,322k £0k
North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust 2019-20 CNST+ELS+RPST RGN 82 £15,024k £0k
Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust 2019-20 CNST+ELS+RPST RHA 73 £2,589k £0k
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust 2019-20 CNST+ELS+RPST RX1 146 £43,843k £0k
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust 2019-20 CNST+ELS+RPST RNU 24 £1,093k £0k
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust 2019-20 CNST+ELS+RPST RTH 117 £21,509k £0k
Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust 2019-20 CNST+ELS+RPST RPG 38 £2,625k £0k
Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust 2019-20 CNST+ELS+RPST RGM 9 £667k £0k
Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust 2019-20 CNST+ELS+RPST RW6 254 £25,218k £0k
Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust 2019-20 CNST+ELS+RPST RT2 25 £604k £0k
Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust 2019-20 CNST+ELS+RPST RK9 92 £12,739k £0k
Poole Hospital NHS Foundation Trust 2019-20 CNST+ELS+RPST RD3 41 £7,026k £0k
Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust 2019-20 CNST+ELS+RPST RHU 80 £19,546k £0k
Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust 2019-20 CNST+ELS+RPST RQW 64 £10,916k £0k
Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn NHS Foundation Trust 2019-20 CNST+ELS+RPST RCX 38 £3,646k £0k
Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust 2019-20 CNST+ELS+RPST RPC 5 £425k £0k
Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust 2019-20 CNST+ELS+RPST RL1 10 £575k £0k
Rotherham, Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust 2019-20 CNST+ELS+RPST RXE 7 £124k £0k
Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust 2019-20 CNST+ELS+RPST RFR 60 £7,915k £0k

Data from NHS Resolution Annual Statistics.

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