Table of contents
- Preliminary material
- Title and verso pages
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Symbols
- Summary
- Claims
- Cost, duration and mode of claim finalisation
- The incidents and who was involved
- Body section
- 1 Introduction
- 1.1 Background to the report
- 1.2 Collaborative arrangements
- 2 The collection
- 2.1 Data items and definitions
- 2.2 Claim management practices
- The public sector
- Private sector medical indemnity insurers
- 2.3 Data completeness and Not known rates
- 3 Claims for 2008–09
- 3.1 Health-care incidents leading to claims
- Health service setting
- Primary incident/allegation type
- Specialty of clinician
- 3.2 People affected by claims
- Age and sex of claim subject
- Primary body function/structure affected
- 3.3 Duration of claims
- 3.4 Reserve range of current claims
- 3.5 Total claim size of closed claims
- 3.6 Mode of claim finalisation
- 3.7 Closed claims: specialty of clinician
- 3.8 Closed claims: health service setting
- 3.1 Health-care incidents leading to claims
- 1 Introduction
- End matter
- Appendixes
- Appendix 1: Data items and definitions
- Appendix 2: Public and private sector claim management practices
- The public sector
- The private sector
- Appendix 3: Coding examples for some main data items
- References
- List of tables
- List of figures
- Appendixes