Medical negligence claims over the last five years cost NHS trusts in Lincolnshire more than £91 million, data shows.
Figures from NHS Resolution, which handles claims on behalf of NHS trusts, and gathered by the BBC Shared Data Unit, showed £91,652,639.85 was paid by Lincolnshire Community Health Services (LCHS), Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LPFT) and United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust (ULHT) since 2012.
The majority of this overall cost came from ULHT, which paid out a total of £90,350,003.76 on medical negligence claims since 2012, making it the fifth highest payer in the country.
Between 2012 and 2017, LCHS spent £628,897.09 and LPFT spent £673,739.00.
Currently, there are four negligence scheme which cover medical negligence costs. These include:
Clinical Negligence Scheme for Trusts (CNST) – which covers incidents that occurred after April 1995
Existing Liabilities Scheme (ELS) – which covers incidents that occurred before April 1995
Regional Health Authorities – which was abolished in 1996
Department of Health – which covers remaining clinical negligence liabilities
NHS Resolution figures only include CNST and ELS, which means the total amount paid in Lincolnshire could be more.
These figures have placed ULHT in the top 10 trusts for largest combined payouts for both pre-1995 and post-1995 claims in the country. These include:
Barts Health NHS Trust (£123,066,279.06)
The Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (£110,141,325.53)
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (£99,568,149.99)
King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (£97,742,994.68)
University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust (£92,416,900.14)
Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust (£90,812,609.52)
United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust (£90,350,003.76)
Oxford University Hospitals NHS (Foundation) Trust (£90,227,227.46)
Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust (£80,853,729.53)
Historic mistakes
Some £6,511,057.90 was spent by ULHT on historic claims post-1995 alone.
Of these claims, 100% linked to mistakes made in relation to maternity.
These figures have placed ULHT in the top five trusts for largest historical payouts in the country. These include:
Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (£8,449,332.59)
Doncaster and Bassetlaw Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (£8,124,613.94)
University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust (£7,492,315.26)
North West London Hospitals NHS Trust (£7,240,331.50)
United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust (£6,511,057.90)
As previously reported by The Lincolnite in 2013, over £10 million was paid to Aaron Crosby, then 9, from Lincoln, after he was left with severe brain damage during his birth.
Aaron Crosby
He won the settlement from ULHT of over £10 million after Rebecca Crosby attended Lincoln County Hospital when her contractions started, and the birth progressed normally.
However, she was later given a drug designed to stimulate contractions, but the doses were higher than NICE guidelines.
This led to Rebecca having uterine hyper stimulation, starving her unborn baby of oxygen. Staff also “lost contact” with the heart monitor, so failed to take steps to check the baby’s heart rate.
Aaron was left with brain damage, athetoid cerebal palsy and epilepsy. He is wheelchair bound, can’t talk and cannot use any of limbs, so requires 24-hour care.
Karen Brown, Director of Finance, Procurement and Corporate Affairs at ULHT said: “ULHT is one of the biggest trusts in the country, treating a large number of patients.
“There is a rising trend of compensation claims nationally and every NHS trust pays a contribution to an organisation called the NHS Resolution each year.
“This contribution is like an insurance premium, the quantity is calculated by the NHS Resolution and they settle all claims on behalf of ULHT.
“Therefore any funds paid out in litigation cases are not paid by ULHT. This is covered by the insurance premium paid each year to NHS Resolution.
“We aim to provide the best quality care to each and every one of our patients.
“Where mistakes may have occurred, the trust uses this as an opportunity to learn lessons and improve the quality of care for our patients.
“This has been reflected in a reduction in our premiums for 2018/2019.”
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Picture the scene: you’re about to order a delivery to your house, and the address you give is “Fatty Bum Bum Street”. Well, according to Google Maps, that’s what one side street in the village of Saxilby near Lincoln is called.
A driveway which has three houses alongside it on Westcroft Drive in Saxilby is officially part of that street, but an amusing name has appeared on Google Maps to give it its own identity.
Those three houses, unofficially, are now situated on “fatty bum bum”, and it is unclear as to how and why it was given this name.
Fatty bum bum is on Westcroft Drive, and you can add that to the list of sentences I never dreamed of typing. | Photo: The Lincolnite
There is no road sign in place, but anyone who goes on Google Maps can find the street in question by simply typing “fatty bum bum Saxilby”. No, genuinely, try it.
I wonder who lives at the unlucky three houses on fatty bum bum. | Photo: Google Maps
The road sign for Westcroft Drive is heavily covered by overgrown bushes, so maybe a new name was needed all along? Who knows.
Westcroft Drive’s road sign is hardly visible, so maybe the whole street should be called “fatty bum bum” as well? | Photo: The Lincolnite
One thing we do know is that this is highly amusing, if not a bit confusing.
The Lincolnite has contacted West Lindsey District Council for a comment, but are yet to receive a reply.
Of course we also wanted to try to speak to people living on “Fatty bum bum” Street, but nobody was willing to come on the record.
There have been 99 coronavirus cases in Greater Lincolnshire on Monday as the Prime Minister says July 19 is still his “terminus” for lockdown restrictions, but a “rough winter” awaits.
The latest figures are a rise of 14% compared to 87 cases last Monday.
The government’s COVID-19 dashboard recorded on Monday 42 new cases in Lincolnshire, 45 in North East Lincolnshire and 12 in North Lincolnshire.
There were no deaths reported in government or NHS figures on Monday.
Nationally on Monday, cases increased by 10,633 to 4,640,507 while a further five deaths took the tally to 127,981.
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said July 19 is still looking to be the “terminus point” to end all coronavirus restrictions during a visit to the National Institute for Biological Standards and Control on Monday.
Suggestions that the lockdown lift could be brought forward have been mooted by Downing Street today, who said they will continue to monitor cases day-by-day.
Lincolnshire’s coronavirus cases up to June 21.
Mr Johnson added that he was “looking at” allowing people “exemptions” from quarantine if they had two doses of the vaccine, but added: “The emphasis is going to be making sure we can protect the country from the virus coming back in.”
He warned cases of the Delta variant are rising at a rate of around 30% week on week.
He added that the UK was in for a “rough winter” with the return of flu and that the NHS needed to be given “breathing space” by reducing cases before then.
However, he did not rule out further lockdowns in the winter.
“You can never exclude that there will be some new disease, some new horror that we simply haven’t budgeted for or accounted for,” he said.
Coronavirus data for Greater Lincolnshire on Monday, June 21
61,873 cases (up 99)
42,756 in Lincolnshire (up 42)
9,881 in North Lincolnshire (up 12)
9,236 in North East Lincolnshire (up 45)
2,194 deaths (no change)
1,622 from Lincolnshire (no change)
302 from North Lincolnshire (no change)
270 from North East Lincolnshire (no change)
of which 1,312 hospital deaths (no change)
816 at United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust (no change)
42 at Lincolnshire Community Health Service hospitals (no change)
1 at Lincolnshire Partnership Foundation Trust (no change)
453 in Northern Lincolnshire (NLAG) (no change)
4,640,507 UK cases, 127,981 deaths
DATA SOURCE — FIGURES CORRECT AT THE TIME OF THE LATEST UPDATE. POSTCODE DATA INCLUDES DEATHS NOT IN HEALTHCARE FACILITIES OR IN HOSPITALS OUTSIDE AUTHORITY BOUNDARIES.
A cyclist in his 20s has suffered head injuries after being knocked off his bike by a car in a hit and run in Stamford.
The crash happened just after 1am on Thursday, June 17, near to the junction of Emlyns Street in the town.
The vehicle which hit into the cyclist did not stop at the scene and police are now investigating the crash.
The victim, a man in his 20s, was taken to hospital with head injuries that are not life-threatening.
Officers are seeking information about the vehicle and driver, Lincolnshire Police said on June 21.
Anyone with CCTV or dashcam footage in the Alexandra Road and Emlyns Street area, between 1am and 1.20am on June 17, is being asked to contact police in one of the following ways:
Call 101 and quote incident 17 of June 17
Email [email protected] and quote the same incident reference in the subject box
Whatsapp
