Written answers
Tuesday, 14 May 2024
Department of Health
Health Service Executive
Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú)
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627. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who have taken legal cases against the HSE in each of the past ten years, and to date in 2024. [21710/24]
Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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The State Claims Agency (SCA) has a statutory remit to manage personal injury claims on behalf of Delegated State Authorities including the Health Service Executive.
I have been informed by the SCA that the information contained within the table below has been extracted from the National Incident Management System (NIMS) and relates to claims against healthcare locations, i.e. acute and community settings, Section 38 service providers and the national services and disability sector locations. It does not contain any private scheme locations.
Please note the information set out in this response relates to claims against the HSE handled by the SCA only.
Table : Number of Healthcare Claims per Year from 2014 to 2024 YTD (08/05/2024)
| Claim Create Year | Number of Claims |
|---|---|
| 2014 | 1,349 |
| 2015 | 1,576 |
| 2016 | 1,602 |
| 2017 | 1,915 |
| 2018 | 2,080 |
| 2019 | 2,225 |
| 2020 | 2,039 |
| 2021 | 1,835 |
| 2022 | 1,855 |
| 2023 | 1,967 |
| 2024 YTD | 716 |
| Grand Total | 19,159 |
Definitions:
| National Incident Management System (NIMS) | Incidents (which include claims) are reported using the “National Incident Management System”, hosted by the State Claims Agency (SCA). An incident can be a harmful Incident (Adverse Event), no harm incident, near miss, dangerous occurrence (reportable circumstance) or complaint. NIMS is the system used by the delegated authorities to fulfil their statutory requirement to report incidents to the State Claims Agency and for their own incident and risk management purposes. |
|---|---|
| Healthcare | ‘Healthcare’ at location level 1 field on NIMS, this includes acute, community and Section 38 bodies. |
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