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Sheffield hospitals trust paid out £14m in compensation for surgery errors

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Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has had to pay out more than £14m to patients who have lodged claims for surgery errors since 2019.


When an error occurs during surgery, patients can be left in unnecessary pain, giving them the option to lodge a claim, and NHS trusts across the country have had to pay out millions over the past few years. The sum of these claims was found via an Freedom of Information (FoI) request, obtained by Medical Negligence Assist.


Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust employs about 19,500 staff and is one of the largest and busiest NHS Teaching Trusts, caring for over 2 million patients every year across five hospitals and extensive community health services.


From 2019 to 2024, 212 claims regarding surgical errors were lodged against Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, 125 of which were settled. In 2019/2020, 47 claims were made against the Trust, the second-highest number of claims over the past five years.

A year later, this number increased to 48 claims. The service has experienced a drop in claims over the past year compared to 2022/23, with a total of 42.



Over the past five years, the trust has paid out a total of £14,305,273, with the highest amount coming in 2022/23, standing at £6,356,337.


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.



The most common causes for surgical error claims were failures/delays for treatment, which was lodged 1,999 times, and the most common surgery error injury was unnecessary pain, seeing 1,990 claims submitted.



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