In how many cases the NHS has been guilty of clinical negligence in each year since 1997 and how much compensation was paid each year, also…

I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-11099 on 14 April 2008 which contains the data requested for the financial years 1996-97 to 2006-07. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.
The following table details the number of clinical negligence cases that settled in 2007-08 together with the sums paid out in those settlements.
Health Board
| Settled Cases
(No.)
| Sums Paid
(£)

Ayrshire and Arran
| 15
| 363,985

Borders
| 8
| 1,650,348

Dumfries and Galloway
| 4
| 98,696

Fife
| 11
| 507,829

Forth Valley
| 9
| 82,186

Grampian
| 14
| 1,979,524

Greater Glasgow and Clyde
| 48
| 5,826,852

Highland
| 6
| 898,000

Lanarkshire
| 22
| 1,805,088

Lothian
| 25
| 905,907

Tayside
| 16
| 198,229

Scottish Government Health Directorates
| 3
| 128,000

Scottish Ambulance Service
| 1
| 70,000

Total
| 182
| 14,514,644