Table of contents

  • Preliminary material
    • Title and verso pages
    • Contents
    • Acknowledgments
    • Abbreviations
    • Symbols
    • Summary
  • Body section
    • 1 Introduction
    • 2 The collection
      • 2.1 Scope and context
      • 2.2 Policy, administrative and legal context
      • 2.3 Data items
      • 2.4 Data coverage, completeness and quality
      • 2.5 Reporting claim characteristics
    • 3 Public sector medical indemnity claims for 2009–10
      • 3.1 New claims
      • 3.2 Current claims
      • 3.3 Closed claims
    • 4 Changes over time to public sector medical indemnity claims, 2005–06 to 2009–10
      • 4.1 Claim numbers
      • 4.2 Clinical service context and principal clinician  specialty
      • 4.3 Primary body function/structure affected and primary incident/allegation type
      • 4.4 Extent of harm
      • 4.5 Mode of settlement and claim size
    • 5 Public sector medical indemnity claims closed between 2005–06 and 2009–10
      • 5.1 Alleged health-care incidents leading to claims
      • 5.2 Administrative and financial characteristics of closed claims
      • 5.3 Sex and age of claim subjects
  • End matter
    • Appendixes
      • Appendix 1: Background to the MINC collection
      • Appendix 2: MINC data items and key terms
      • Appendix 3: Medical Indemnity National Collection (Public Sector) data quality statement
      • Appendix 4: Policy, administrative and legal features in each jurisdiction
      • Appendix 5: Body function/structure categories
    • References
    • List of tables
    • List of figures