Thursday 02 May 2024
Internal Reference Number: FOI_6836
Date Request Received: 20/10/2022 00:00:00
Date Request Replied To: 08/11/2022 00:00:00
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Request Summary: Workforce musculoskeletal disorder (MSD) – 2018 to 2022
Request Category: Health
| Question Number 1: Number of workplace patient handling MSD’s / injuries per 1000 clinical staff in the Trust? | |
| Answer To Question 1: Datix shows musculoskeletal incidents and injuries reported for the timeframe requested but the data does not distinguish between those musculoskeletal injuries sustained as a result of patient handling, or for non-patient handling (such as lifting or moving equipment, working in awkward positions or fatigue during the course of the shift that cannot be pin pointed to patient handling), | |
| Question Number 2: Body locations for the reported workplace patient handling MSD’s / injury? For example neck, arms, back, hip, legs, other | |
| Answer To Question 2: As per Q1 | |
| Question Number 3: Number of moving and handling / safe patient handling leads in Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust? | |
| Answer To Question 3: 1 | |
| Question Number 4: Number of moving and handling / safe patient handling facilitators for each clinical environment in Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust? | |
| Answer To Question 4: We have 80 trained lifting and handling facilitators across the Trust. | |
| Question Number 5: Number of RIDDOR reportable workplace patient handling MSD’s / injury reported in Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust? | |
| Answer To Question 5: We have had 12 RIDDOR’s reported as a result of handling a patient by staff member between 01/01/2018 and 21/10/2022 | |
| Question Number 6: Average sickness absence cost including replacement staff? | |
| Answer To Question 6: Information not held | |
| Question Number 7: Number of litigation cases made per year in Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust? | |
| Answer To Question 7: Information can be found in https://resolution.nhs.uk/. | |
| Question Number 8: The legal costs to the Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust of defending workplace patient handling caregiver injury claims per year | |
| Answer To Question 8: See question 7 above. The cost to the Trust is NIL as all payments are made by the NHSR .The Trust is covered by Clinical negligence scheme for trusts for clinical claims (CNST) and by other schemes for employers liability public liability (ELPL scheme). As such the NHSR act as our insurer and you would be best placed obtaining this data from the NHSR | |
| Question Number 9: The amount of money paid out in compensation / settlement costs to claimants per year. | |
| Answer To Question 9: See answer to 8 above | |
| Question Number 10: How may claims were settled out of court per calendar year | |
| Answer To Question 10: See answer 8 above. Also this depends very much what you mean by ‘settled out of court’ .Do you mean before getting to trial when the case will have been issued in court and therefore litigated or do you mean before proceedings have been issued . Once proceedings are issued and a defence filed the matter is automatically managed by the court up to and including the Trial You will need to be more specific in your request to the NHSR | |
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