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-1581157419975Clinical Negligence & Other Risks Indemnity Scheme (CNORIS)Annual Report 2016-2017Scheme Director: David KnowlesNHS National Services ScotlandDate Published: July 2017Table of Contents:Introduction........................................................................................................................................3Outturn for 2016-17............................................................................................................................4Table 1: CNORIS Payments by Members 2016-17...........................................................4Incident Timeline................................................................................................................................5Graph 1: Claims Paid 2016-17 by Year of Incident...........................................................5Trends in Payments...........................................................................................................................6Table 2: Payments made since 2005-06..............................................................................................6Graph 2: Value of Claims Paid during 2014-15, 2015-16 & 2016-17...................................................7Graph 3: Number of Claim Payments made during 2014-15, 2015-16 & 2016-17..............................8Periodic Payment Orders and Structured Settlements 2016-17....................................................9Contributions and Claims Paid.........................................................................................................9Graph 4: Contributions & Claims Paid – 3 Year Total.......................................................10Analysis of Claims by Year of Incident and Year Received...........................................................11Graph 5: Breakdown of No. of All Claims.............................................................................................11Graph 6: Breakdown of CNORIS Payments 2007-08 to 2016-17........................................................12Graph 7: CNORIS Payments made 2007-08 to 2016-17 by Speciality Group.....................................13Graph 8: CNORIS Payments by Years of Incidents and Claims Received..........................................14Pipeline Analysis................................................................................................................................15Graph 9a: Pipeline Analysis of Open Claims.......................................................................................15Graph 9b: Pipeline Analysis of Open claims (adjusted for risk)...........................................................15Appendix 1: Background, Definitions, and Key Delivery Partners………………………...............16Appendix 2: Organisations covered by CNORIS............................................................................17Notes ................................................................................................................................................. 18IntroductionClinical Negligence and Other Risks Indemnity Scheme (CNORIS) is a risk transfer and financing scheme for Health and Social Care across Scotland and was first established in 1999 by the Scottish Government Health Directorates in partnership with Willis Limited. The primary objective is to provide cost-effective risk pooling and claims management arrangements for members of the Scheme who include: NHS Health Boards, Special Health Boards and Health & Social Care Integration Joint Boards from across Scotland.With effect from the 1st September 2013 NHS National Services Scotland (NSS) took over responsibility for managing the Scheme from Willis Limited, with the NHS Central Legal Office continuing to provide legal advice and guidance to members in relation to negligence claims.This year’s annual report provides summary details of the number and value of claims made during the financial year 2016-17, and gives an insight into arrangements for payment of clinical negligence claims and the impact on NHS Scotland. The NHS in Scotland treats some 4.5 million outpatients and 1.6 million inpatients each year in hospitals in Scotland. There is a very high standard of care and patient safety. The total number of claims upheld for clinical negligence each year is small although the financial value can be high depending on the nature of the claim and the impact on the patient. The CNORIS scheme covers both clinical and non clinical claims. In 2016-17 there were 424 claim payments made; a 45.7% increase on the number of payments made in 2015-16 (291). However, although there was an increase in the number of payments made there was a 23.8% decrease in the value of payments, ?40.3 million compared with ?52.8 million paid in 2015-16. The division of 2016-17 payments between clinical and non-clinical claims was 342 payments totalling ?38.3 million for clinical claims and 82 payments totalling ?2.0 million for non-clinical claims. The highest settlement payments related to claims for obstetric care and, as illustrated in Graph 2 below, these types of claims can, due to a number of factors, take many years to conclude.It should be noted that although a claim may have been received in 2016-17 it often related to an incident that occurred many years previously. This is highlighted by the fact that of the claims received in 2016-17 there were only 14 of the 424 where the incident date was between 2014-15 and 2016-17; value of payments totalled ?0.69 million. This is analysed in greater detail in graph 1 below.Outturn for 2016-17The value of claims paid in 2016-17 was ?40.3 million.?NHS BoardValue of Payments - ?Number of PaymentsNHS Ayrshire and Arran1,045,61916NHS Borders401,01612NHS Dumfries and Galloway338,6077NHS Fife4,679,01134NHS Forth Valley3,866,78915NHS Grampian1,794,15728NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde10,814,33597NHS Highland1,091,62110NHS Lanarkshire3,889,96739NHS Lothian5,004,10874NHS Orkney2,386<5NHS Shetland201,564<5NHS Tayside4,927,78059NHS Western Isles661,796<5NHS24661,120<5NHS National Services Scotland91,294<5NHS National Waiting Times Centre383,46710Scottish Ambulance Service237,4746The State Hospital162,230<5The breakdown of the number and value of claim payments made during 2016-17 is detailed in Table 1 below. Of these payments, 31 related to high value cases (where settlement was over ?1 million) and of these, 8 payments, all of which related to clinical claims, were in excess of ?1 million.Table 1: Number & Value of 2016-17 Payments Incident Timeline Graph 1 below provides a breakdown of all claims paid in 2016-17 by the value and number of payments attributed by the financial year of the incident. The majority of payments related to claims settled more than 5 years after the incident occurred, with some settlements taking considerably longer.Graph 1: Claims Paid 2016-17 by Year of IncidentTrends in PaymentsTable 2 below shows the change in the number and value of CNORIS payments over the last 10 years. It highlights the variation in values and how increasing payment numbers has not necessarily correlated to an increased value in payments. What can be seen however is the general trend of increasing claim numbers, which is in part due to the increase number of interim payments being reclaimed by health boards.Table 2: Payments made since 2005-06* Financial YearValue of PaymentsNo of PaymentsClinical (? million)Non-Clinical (? million)Total (? million)ClinicalNon-ClinicalTotal2007-0818.310.6318.9395281232008-0927.091.3428.426621872009-1030.800.3231.1289141032010-1157.380.8758.24123241472011-1227.152.0529.19126361622012-1333.131.8534.98168492172013-1434.873.5338.40160412012014-1536.961.6238.57193612542015-1649.703.1052.81235562912016-1738.291.9740.2534282424Total353.6617.26370.931,5974122,009 * Values relate to reimbursements made from CNORIS and not payments to claimants and their legal representatives.Of the 424 payments made in 2016-17, there were 8 in excess of ?1 million and 31 related to 26 claims where the total value of the claim was in excess of ?1 million. The breakdown, by percentage, of the number and value of claims over the last 3 financial years (2014-15, 2015-16 and 2016-17), by speciality, is provided in graphs 2 and 3 below. The graphs highlight that although obstetrics claims account on average for only 15.8% of the number of claims they account on average for 39.3% of the total value of claims over these years.Graph 2: Value of Claims Paid during 2014-15, 2015-16 & 2016-17 by Speciality** How claims are categorised is currently being reviewed and once completed will result in less being reported as being “unclassified”. Graph 3: Number of Claim Payments made during 2014-15, 2015-16 & 2016-17 by Speciality** How claims are categorised is currently being reviewed and once completed will result in less being reported as being “unclassified”. Periodic Payment Orders (PPOs) and Structured Settlements 2016-17PPO payments are paid to claimants in advance and, for most settlements, paid annually beginning December each year, with payments to health boards generally made within the following few months. During 2016-17 there were 13 PPOs and 4 older structured settlements paid across 6 NHS Boards; one paid quarterly and the others annually. The values reclaimed by health boards from CNORIS during 2016-17 totalled ?3.17 million, which included a pro-rata refund of ?0.23 million when a PPO ceased earlier than expected. The increasing number of PPOs will continue to affect the future profile of payments by CNORIS, with future year’s payments being subject to inflationary changes. Contributions and Claims PaidContributions and claims paid in the last 3 years are illustrated in Graph 4 below. Contributions are set based upon a formula that includes: claim history; more recent claims; and an assessment of the risks of incidents occurring. Contributions do not therefore necessarily equal payments in any particular year, although over time the total contributions paid by health boards should match payments reclaimed by them from CNORIS.Graph 4: Contributions & Claims Paid – 3 Year TotalAnalysis of Claims by Year of Incident and Year Graph 5 below provides a breakdown of the total number of medical and nursing (clinical) claims for compensation together with all other compensation claims, received by NSS CLO in each financial year. The graph also details the number of those claims where the total costs, as at 31 Mar 2017, exceeded the CNORIS deductibles threshold of ?25,000, irrespective of whether these costs have been reclaimed from CNORIS by heath boards. It is important to bear in mind that, although there has been a further decrease in the number of claims being received, this graph relates to the number of claims received each year regardless of value and merit, and does not indicate the number of claims that may eventually be a call on the CNORIS scheme, generally those in excess of ?25,000 where responsibility is accepted or judgement is awarded.Graph 5 - Breakdown of No. of All Claims Received by NSS CLOGraphs 6 and 7 below provides a breakdown of payments made by the CNORIS scheme between 2007-08 and 2016-17 (total value of net payments made was ?370.93 million), in relation to whether the claim related to an obstetrics & gynaecology incident, another type of clinical incident or an non-clinical incident. Graph 6 is in monetary terms and graph 7 in percentage terms.Graph 6 – Breakdown of CNORIS Payments (?370.93 million, net of deductibles), made between 2007-08 and 2016-17Graph 7 –CNORIS Payments (?370.93 million, net of deductibles), made between 2007-08 and 2016-17, In Percentage TermsGraph 8 profiles the same period of payments, but analyses them by the years in which incidents that led to each claim occurred and also by the years in which these claims were received by CLO; highlighting how some claims can take many years to conclude. For claims paid in 2016-17, where dates are provided, the average period between the date of the incident to the date the claim was received by CLO was 7.97 years, with the average period between CLO receiving the claim to payments being reclaimed by health boards was 4.76 years. The median period between the date of incidents and payments being repaid to health boards was 6.18 years and 3.73 years between CLO receiving the claim and the health board being repaid by CNORIS.Graph 8: CNORIS Payments Since 1 April 2007 Analysed by Year of Incident and Year Received by CLOPipeline AnalysisA pipeline analysis of the estimated values of all open (unsettled) claims as at year ends for the last 5 financial years (2010-11 to 2016-17), broken down by obstetrics & gynaecology claims, other clinical claims and non-clinical claims, is provided in Graph 9a below. In addition, the graph profiles the years in which the open (unsettled) claims “@ Year End 2017” were estimated to be settled, with almost 60% with an estimated settlement value above the CNORIS ?25,000 deductibles threshold.However, this does not take into account the relevant risk profiles evaluating how many of these claims were anticipated to be settled in favour of the claimant. Graph 9b illustrates the significant reduction in estimated values when risk profiles were taken into account. Both risk profiles and estimated settlement values will continue to be revised as claims advance through the legal process and therefore these values do not necessarily reflect CNORIS payments in the future.Graph 9aGraph 9bGraph 9a – Unadjusted* Total Estimated Value of Open ClaimsGraph 9b – Risk Adjusted* Total Estimated Value of Open ClaimsAppendix 1: Background, Definitions, and Key Delivery PartnersBackground to the CNORIS Scheme:The scheme was established under the Clinical Negligence and Other Risk Indemnity Scheme (CNORIS) Scotland Regulations 2000 as amended, with effect from 1 April 2000. Participation in the scheme is mandatory for all NHS Boards in Scotland with responsibility for delivering patient care. Private contractors including General Dental Practices and General Medical Practitioners (GPs) are outwith the scheme (they have their own indemnity scheme arrangements). GPs may be covered in instances where they have been directly employed by Health Boards (e.g. out of hours scheme).With the introduction of the Public Bodies (Joint Working) (Scotland) Act from April 2015, the Scheme was broadened to enable Integration Joint Boards and Local Authorities to become Members.Definitions of the CNORIS Scheme:The Scheme - Clinical Negligence and Other Risks Indemnity Scheme (CNORIS)Scheme Contractor – NHS National Services Scotland (NSS) manage the scheme on behalf of Scottish Government.Scottish Government Scheme Manager – the lead individual within Scottish Government Health & Social Care Directorates with responsibility for the policy and operation of the CNORIS schemeNHSScotland – the publicly funded healthcare system for people in Scotland.NHS Boards – the individual territorial and Special Health Boards with direct responsibility for patient care in Scotland and who comprise the scheme membership.Integration Joint Boards – bodies established to take responsibility for functions delegated by Local Authorities and Health Boards in regard to Health and Social Care ORIS Key Aims & Objectives:To encourage a rigorous and logical approach to risk management in both the clinical and non-clinical sectors of Health and Social Care services in Scotland;To provide advice on clinical and non-clinical scheme coverage to all parts of Health and Social Care services in Scotland; To support scheme members in an advisory capacity in order to?reduce their risks;To indemnify scheme members against losses which qualify for scheme cover;To allocate equitable contributions amongst Members to fund their qualifying losses;To provide Members with scheme financial updates throughout the year to help with planning and forecasting; andTo help manage risk by providing Members with clinical and non-clinical loss analysis throughout the year.Appendix 2: Organisations covered by the CNORIS are as follows*:NHS 24NHS HighlandNHS Ayrshire and ArranArgyll and Bute Integration Joint BoardEast Ayrshire Integration Joint BoardNHS LanarkshireNorth Ayrshire Integration Joint BoardNorth Lanarkshire Integration Joint BoardSouth Ayrshire Integration Joint BoardSouth Lanarkshire Integration Joint BoardNHS BordersNHS LothianNHS Dumfries and GallowayEdinburgh Integration Joint BoardDumfries and Galloway Integration Joint BoardEast Lothian Health and Social Care Partnership Integration Joint BoardNHS Education for ScotlandMidlothian Integration Joint BoardNHS FifeWest Lothian Integration Joint BoardFife Integration Joint BoardMental Welfare Commission for ScotlandNHS Forth ValleyThe Common Services Agency (National Services Scotland)Clackmannanshire and Stirling Integration Joint BoardNational Waiting Times CentreFalkirk Integration Joint BoardNHS OrkneyNHS GrampianOrkney Health and Care BoardAberdeen City Health and Social Care Partnership Integration Joint BoardHealthcare Improvement ScotlandAberdeenshire Integration Joint BoardScottish Ambulance ServiceMoray Integration Joint BoardNHS ShetlandNHS Greater Glasgow and ClydeShetland Islands Integration Joint BoardEast Dunbartonshire Integration Joint BoardThe State HospitalEast Renfrewshire Integration Joint Board NHS TaysideGlasgow City Integration Joint BoardAngus Integration Joint BoardInverclyde Integration Joint BoardDundee City Integration Joint BoardRenfrewshire Integration Joint BoardPerth and Kinross Integration Joint BoardWest Dunbartonshire Integration Joint BoardNHS Western IslesNHS Health Scotland* As at 31 March 2017NOTES ................
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