THE NHS has paid unlucky Brits more than £8.5million in the last three years after serious medical blunders left them unable to have sex or keep an erection.
Figures show there were 35 cases settled with NHS Resolution after negligence in hospitals left men and women with “loss of sexual function” conditions.
Errors can include accidentally cutting through essential reproductive organs or removing the wrong testicle during cancer surgeryCredit: Getty
Claims generally come from botched surgeries near patients’ sexual organs where .
Errors can include accidentally cutting through essential reproductive organs or during cancer surgery.
Figures for England obtained by The Sun show 35 claims were settled between 2022 and last March, with an average damages payout of £248,000.
The total bill was £8,680,173, though it is likely to rise as claims made last year are still being settled.
Some 30 of the claims were for , while five blokes won payouts when doctor errors left them impotent and unable to get an erection.
The NHS spent another £3.2million on legal bills for both claimants and themselves.
It means that the blunders have cost a total of £11.9million.
NHS bosses spent £20million on tackling in England last year, including prescribing a record amount of Viagra to hard-up Brits.
Despite that, a record 518 men in a year needed hospital treatment for painful erections.
The number of funded by taxpayers also soared to 626.
Medical solicitor John McQuater said: “You don’t get compensation just for a mistake being made – it is compensation that tries to put you in the position you would be in were for the injury.
“The figures speak to the gravity of the consequences of these errors.
“These are things that everybody agrees should never happen.”
The NHS was asked to comment.
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