Departmental Data

Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 14 September 2022

Wednesday, 14 September 2022

Questions (560)

Peadar Tóibín

Question:

560. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the total amount paid out in compensation for alleged medical negligence in each of the following hospitals in each of the past ten years and to date in 2022: Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda, Our Lady’s Hospital, Navan, Cavan General Hospital, Mayo University Hospital, Wexford General Hospital, University Hospital Galway, Merlin Park University Hospital, Portiuncula Hospital, Ballinasloe, Roscommon University Hospital, Sligo University Hospital, Letterkenny University Hospital, Cork University Hospital, University Hospital Limerick and Mullingar hospital. [44678/22]

Written answers

Minister for Health

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 in the attached document has been extracted from the National Incident Management System (NIMS) according to the below criteria.

The SCA does not release transaction data into the public domain at individual hospital level because to do so would effectively provide a league table of hospitals and could cause the public to draw false and unwarranted assumptions in relation to the clinical performance of an individual hospital in the absence of further relevant contextual information.

Criteria used

- Payments relate to Acute Statutory and Voluntary Hospitals.

- Relates to payments made under the Clinical Indemnity Scheme.

- Amount paid in damages for the period 2012-2022 (To end of August).

- This report is correct as of 31/08/2022

Compensation