Claims cost pounds 50m.Medical blunders have cost North East hospitals almost pounds 50m in compensation claims in five years. A Chronicle investigation reveals today how much was paid to families who were victims of surgery which went wrong. Claims against Newcastle Hospitals NHS Trust National Health Service Trusts (NHS Trusts) provide many services of the National Health Service in England and Wales. They are not trusts in the legal sense but are in effect public sector corporations. , which manages some of the largest hospitals, accounted for pounds 19m in the past five years. Northumbria Healthcare NHS Trust, which covers North Tyneside General Hospital North Tyneside General Hospital is part of Northumbria NHS Trust. It is closely associated with Wansbeck General Hospital in Ashington. It is the main hospital serving the North Tyneside area. It is located on Rake Lane, near New York in North Shields. , Hexham General, Wansbeck General and seven smaller infirmaries, paid out pounds 10.4m, spending pounds 1.87m last year alone. And County Durham “Durham county” redirects here. For other uses, see Durham County. County Durham is a county in north-east England. It can be used to refer to 4 different entities:
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