Surgeon's botched operations cost NHS more than £2 million A small number of claims have been made about his work at the Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust where he now works and Goole Hospital. Mid Yorkshire has said it has no concerns about the doctor practising and says it undertakes robust checks when employing staff. Lawyers at Irwin Mitchell who are representing the claimants have agreed a protocol with the NHS to process the large number of claims and another 94 have to be processed. The compensation is being paid by the NHS Litigation Authority which co-ordinates negligence claims on behalf of the health trusts and Rotherham Hospital's contribution is likely to increase because of the settled claims. Some patients have suffered lasting damage at the hands of the surgeon. Wayne Pickering, 60, of Cantley, Doncaster had a hip operation in February, 2006 and suffered a fractured pelvis and damaged the sciatic nerve, leaving him with an unstable hip and seriously impaired mobility so he had to give up work. One man was forced to sleep in a chair because he was unable to lie down due to extreme pain and a patient in her 50s was left with one leg longer than the other while a 23-year-old was allegedly given the wrong hip implant and left disabled for life. Rotherham Hospital declined to comment on the new settlements or how much it expected to pay out in future compensation. Last October the hospital trust announced it would be cutting 750 jobs or 20% of its workforce by 2015 in a bid to save £50 million. Unions have blamed the cuts on poor management. Tim Annett of Irwin Mitchell said: "While some cases have already settled a special protocol has been set up with the NHS LA and investigations are ongoing to find out exactly what happened during the treatment of our remaining clients and ensure that any potential lessons are learned to improve patient safety in the future."