According to reports, total amount of £15.3million along with legal fees for clinical negligence cases was paid, on behalf of the Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals Trust, which is referred to as the highest compared to any other in England during 2010 - 2011.

Also, the trust spokeswoman stated: “The figures did not necessarily mean the hospitals had a high number of claims as the value of settlements varied, and all NHS trusts have seen an increase in their contributions over the last few years because the nature of claims settled has changed”.

Current payouts are said to include Ian Murphy, from Oxford, who was left with serious disabilities, when he was born at the John Radcliffe Hospital in 1977. He was given £5.7m for the damages.

However, Richard Money-Kyrle, a partner at Darbys Solicitors LLP, expressed his surprise to see Radcliffe hospitals topping the league of compensation payments for last year, though this could be as a result of an ‘anomaly’ and the fact that an amount of cases had dropped into settlement last year, instead of the basic trend for treatments at the hospital.

Moreover, other hospitals topping the list for payouts were Barking, Havering & Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust, which got £14.9million, Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust, £13.9million and Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, £13.6million.