NHS For £ 27.4BN bill may be faced for Motherhood Failure in England is revealed in an NHS annual report.
It comes after Many hospital scams Hundreds of infants and women faced a situation of dying or life-changing Emperor,
Possible bill for Maternity negligence Since 2019 is £ 27.4bn, according to A NHS resolution ReportThe organization which claims negligence for NHS trusts in England.
Hospital scams in England have inspired Health Secretary Wes streeting To start a national inquiry into NHS maternity services.
New fast probe will see “systemic” failures in maternity and neo-post-nervous units on “up and under the country”, leaving women and infants at “high” risk.
Mr. Streeting said that the investigation would focus on 10 “worst performance” maternity services in England to improve security for pregnant women and their children.
The NHS resolution report that was published on Thursday, it was found in 2024/25 that NHS paid in £ 3.1BN Compensation And overall affiliated costs.
But because it takes some time to report and settle claims, and some claims are timely fixed as a payment order (PPO) with multi-year payment, the approximate “annual cost” for NHS plans was £ 4.9 billion.
This means that about £ 5 billion in the cost of compensation is currently done by NHS in England for incidents that can be avoided every year.
The cost of damage from maternity incidents in 2019/20 was £ 5.7bn, £ 5.1bn in 2020/21, £ 8.2bn in 2021/22, £ 3.4 in 2022/23 and £ 2.5BN in both £ 3.4 and 2023/24 and 4024/25.
This estimated cost is more than the NHS budget of £ 18BN for newborns in the last six years.
Former Orthodox Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt told The Guardian, “It should be a matter of national shame that now we spend more on maternity litigation than the total cost of maternity services.”
However, compensation for maternity negligence is only for a fraction of a total of £ 17.4BN, in which a large part is going towards legal costs.
In the last six years, £ 24.6m has been spent on legal fees for claims that did not cause damage.
Liberal Democrat Hospitals spokesman Jess Brown-Full said that these figures show how much loss in maternity services causes the cause of NHS.
He told the newspaper: “Our maternity services are being kept bare through crisis trauma, which has to deal with so many families.”
A spokesperson for health and social care said: “This government has inherited an unacceptable status, where many families have suffered losses due to maternity care failures and NHS is paying billions for its mistakes, rather than fixing them.
“We are committed to breaking that cycle and providing mothers and infants with safe, compassionate care.
A spokesperson also stated that he is establishing a national maternity and newborn workforce, rolling a digital system to improve security concerns, and is a new training program to help prevent avoidable injuries in the child’s birth.
A spokesperson from NHS England said: “We believe that many women and families are not receiving high quality maternity care that they deserve, and we are committed to replacing it.
“We are taking immediate steps to strengthen maternity services, including close monitoring of underperforming trusts, and will work with independent investigations to ensure that we learn from its findings and distribute widespread changes that women and families need and worthy.”
NHS resolution said: “The high cost of compensation generated in motherhood comes from very small number of serious events, resulting in brain injury at birth. These incidents are disastrous for families and reflect the need to make provisions for life -long and complex care.
“NHS resolution is committed to supporting the government’s action to run the improvement in maternal and newborn security.
“Our initial notification scheme enables earlier investigation into compensation eligibility in the past and to learn to share more rapidly with NHS trusts. In addition, our maternity incentive scheme provides financial incentives to NHS trusts to embede safety standards. We continue to improve the results and reduce the results for families.”