Written answers
Thursday, 10 May 2018
Department of Health
Medical Negligence Claims
Róisín Shortall (Dublin North West, Social Democrats)
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233. To ask the Minister for Health the amount spent by the HSE on solicitors' fees, barristers' fees, guardians ad litem and settlements in cases related to personal injury and medical negligence for each of the past ten years, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20760/18]
Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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The management of clinical indemnity and general insurance claims has been designated to the State Claims Agency under Section 9 of the National Treasury Management (Amendment) Act 2000. The State Claims Agency has a statutory mandate to investigate and manage these claims to completion.
The State Claims Agency has provided the following information in respect of the past 10 years.
The following table shows the expenditure breakdown for clinical and general claims records on the National Incident Management System (NIMS) since 2008 for all statutory and voluntary healthcare locations including National Support Services, Tusla, CAPs and SOS. These claims relate to clinical care, service users, members of the public and third party property damage.
| Payment type | Agency legal costs | Damages | Expert costs | Plaintiff legal costs | Grand total (€) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 6,385,859 | 28,826,323 | 819,699 | 7,165,936 | 41,197,817 |
| 2009 | 7,215,256 | 34,501,992 | 1,314,168 | 10,003,629 | 53,035,046 |
| 2010 | 10,286,659 | 53,945,976 | 1,836,849 | 15,167,865 | 81,237,349 |
| 2011 | 10,856,366 | 64,855,191 | 1,832,834 | 22,694,617 | 100,239,007 |
| 2012 | 15,569,450 | 51,818,084 | 2,608,381 | 19,662,246 | 89,658,160 |
| 2013 | 16,541,365 | 85,573,544 | 3,310,239 | 21,808,079 | 127,233,227 |
| 2014 | 16,426,079 | 72,473,495 | 3,507,891 | 27,316,808 | 119,724,273 |
| 2015 | 17,597,797 | 157,520,073 | 5,343,497 | 26,693,613 | 210,154,981 |
| 2016 | 20,795,444 | 172,115,329 | 5,132,687 | 35,139,257 | 233,182,717 |
| 2017 | 23,232,533 | 207,824,969 | 6,272,584 | 48,269,685 | 285,599,772 |
| Grand total (€) | 144,906,808 | 927,454,976 | 31,978,829 | 236,921,735 | 1,341,262,348 |
The totals above are subject to rounding.
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