Cause of incident | Total claim value (%) | |||
Correctly allocated to EM | Proportion of total claim cost (%) | Incorrectly allocated to EM | Proportion of total claim cost (%) | |
Failure/delay in diagnosis | £3 855 817.05 | 17.37 | £12 262 261.69 | 55.23 |
Failure/delay in treatment | £502 076.20 | 2.26 | £357 110.84 | 1.61 |
Failure to interpret X-ray | £61 717.06 | 0.28 | £0.00 | 0.00 |
Failure to warn informed consent | £8243.70 | 0.04 | £0.00 | 0.00 |
Delay in operation | £0.00 | 0.00 | £47 600.00 | 0.21 |
Operator error | £0.00 | 0.00 | £39 071.61 | 0.18 |
Failure to recognise complication | £0.00 | 0.00 | £3 470 000.00 | 15.63 |
Inadequate nursing care | £0.00 | 0.00 | £0.00 | 0.00 |
Medication error | £0.00 | 0.00 | £1 600 000.00 | 7.21 |
Total | £4 427 854.01 | 19.9 | £17 776 044.14 | 80.1 |
EM, emergency medicine.