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<p>The number and value of clinical negligence payments made by the NHS Litigation
Authority (NHS LA) as a result of negligence incurred by independent sector providers
that are members of one of the NHS LA schemes, up to the 31 March 2014 is detailed
in the following table:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td> </td><td><p>Number
of Claims with Payments</p></td><td><p>Damages</p><p>Paid</p></td><td><p>Defence Costs</p><p>Paid</p></td><td><p>Claimant
Costs</p><p>Paid</p></td><td><p>Total Paid</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Private Sector</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>5,045</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>5,045</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>NHS
Member</p></td><td><p>526</p></td><td><p>18,545,522</p></td><td><p>2,651,908</p></td><td><p>9,573,576</p></td><td><p>30,771,005</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Department
of Health</p></td><td><p>188</p></td><td><p>10,783,424</p></td><td><p>1,073,613</p></td><td><p>3,673,581</p></td><td><p>15,530,617</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>719</p></td><td><p>29,328,945</p></td><td><p>3,730,565</p></td><td><p>13,247,157</p></td><td><p>46,306,667</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>
</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p>Independent sector providers of NHS services
have only been eligible to join the NHS LA’s clinical negligence scheme for trusts
since April 2013. The likelihood of a claim being incurred, reported and settled in
the same financial year is very low, hence the low values in the table, but private
sectors members now contribute directly to the scheme for their own liabilities.</p><p>
</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In April 2013 arrangements were put in place so that sub-contractors
would be covered by the NHS member of the scheme. This was to make the system less
complex.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Since April 2013, claims arising from the activities
of independent sector providers have historically been funded by the NHS member organisations
that have contracted with them.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>An element of these
claims has been inherited and funded by the Department as a result of the abolition
of primary care trusts and strategic health authorities on 1 April 2013.</p><p> </p><p><strong>
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