The Trust has paid out a total of £9,509,605
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has paid out more than £9m in surgery errors since 2019.
A year later, the number of claims decreased to 30. More recently in the past year there was another rise in claims with a total of 29, compared to 2022-23 which saw 22 claims. If someone is affected by surgery errors, they are able to claim against the NHS using NHS Resolution which will pay for their compensation. NHS Resolution is a government scheme paid for by NHS Trusts which acts as an insurance policy, paying for negligence claims.
According to figures gathered by NHS Resolution, 11,700 claims have been lodged against NHS trusts around the country for surgery errors in the past five years, with 8,753 of these claims being settled. The government department also revealed the most frequent causes of surgery errors as well as the injuries that resulted from them.
However, this is not the only surgery where errors can occur, they can also happen in neuro, oral and maxillofacial, orthopaedic, plastic, and vascular surgeries.
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