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
  • 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
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