We provide a fully outsourced claims handling services for all clinical and non-clinical claims, helping you to reduce costs, save time and release valuable resource.

Our price options ensure that each organisation significantly reduces their overall spend.

We have a dedicated and highly experienced team who currently manage over 1000 claims on behalf of 10+ NHS Trusts and have been successfully providing this service for over 10 years.

We can provide short or long term cover for staff absence or sickness and will ensure that your organisation’s claims are dealt with safely and efficiently by experienced legal professionals, and we can help you to demonstrate  measurable financial savings.

Our claims handling services system has been developed to allow us greater flexibility on pricing and timescales to help meet clients long or short term claims management needs. We guarantee a saving on costs and a fully professional and expert service which gives greater oversight of claims. 

You choose the model on which to instruct us and we can agree a price structure and a timescale which meets budgetary requirements.

    What we offer

    • Fully managed clinical and non‑clinical claims handling
    • Bespoke claims management tailored to your organisation’s needs
    • Short‑ or long‑term interim support during staff absence or increased workload
    • Complete portfolio management, ensuring deadlines are met and claims progress efficiently
    • Assistance with disclosure, audits, and reviews of existing services
    • NHS Resolution‑compliant processes from initial notification to resolution
    • Training, learning, and safety improvement support
    • Detailed claims analysis, performance monitoring, and reporting for boards and divisions

    Claims Handling Services

    Claims Management Service
    • A fully outsourced solution from initial notification to resolution, including support for legal and clinical staff, weekly/monthly reporting, and board‑level insights into trends and risks.
     Emergency, Interim & Rapid Claims Support
    • Temporary fixed‑term cover during staff absence or workload surges. We progress all claims, monitor deadlines, identify risks, and provide a comprehensive handover report.
    Claims Essential / Core Management Service
    • A fixed‑fee or hourly service providing essential oversight, reporting, deadline monitoring, and support to ensure legal matters progress efficiently and compliantly.
    Audit & Consulting Service
    • A full review of your claims processes, reporting systems, and databases, with recommendations to improve efficiency, reduce costs, and embed best practice.

    Benefits 

    Oversight & Compliance
    • You gain clear visibility of all claims and deadlines, reliable compliance with NHS Resolution requirements, and stronger reporting and benchmarking to support organisational oversight.
    Cost and Efficiency
    • Our service guarantees measurable cost savings and faster time to resolution while reducing the internal workload placed on your legal services team. 
    Engagement and Safety
    • We help improve clinician engagement, strengthen learning from claims, and enhance patient safety outcomes through better insight, training, and structured feedback.

    Value‑Added Benefits

    • Full support with communications and system setup with NHS Resolution and Panel
    • Free training for clinicians and staff
    • One free place on the Capsticks Clinical Risk Diploma (value £1,995 + VAT)
    • Seamless access to advice from solicitors across all sectors
    • Support with quarterly, six‑month, and annual reporting

    How Capsticks can help

    • Providing a fully managed and cost effective clinical and non-claims solution
      • Complete management of your claim portfolio

      We can manage your entire claims portfolio, ensuring that claims are run professionally and procedural deadlines are met.

      • Guaranteed efficiency

      Our specialist team will ensure that time to resolution is improved and that you experience a reduction in overall costs.

      • NHS Resolution compliant

      From disclosure of records and reporting the claim to NHS Resolution, to the resolution of the claim, our experienced team will work hard to ensure your organisations claims are dealt with in the way you want them to be managed and in a manner consistent with all NHS Resolution scheme rules

      • Analysis and performance

      We provide detailed analysis on claims and patient safety, along with learning and development for distribution to the board and individual divisions. We monitor performance on time to resolution and costs so the information your organisation needs is always readily available.  We also monitor clinician engagement levels.

    • Providing a bespoke claims handling service

      We can provide a personalised service to match your requirements – particularly helpful if you want to see an immediate improvement within a specific allocation of claims (for examples Employers Liability or Public Liability claims).

      We can support you with:

      • Improved performance
      • Assistance with disclosure
      • Audit and review of your existing services
    • Improving safety and learning

      We work alongside our clients to provide training and learning from claims, which ultimately improves patient safety, prevents recurrence of claims and reduces costs.

      We help clients prepare for Getting It Right First Time and we can provide training and guidance on how to review claims data and how to report on that data to benchmark your organisation’s performance.

      Our team are ideally positioned to provide initial risk management reviews and preliminary analyses at request for records stage, and we can produce safety and learning reports which clients find invaluable to improving safety and learning from claims.

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