article_snippet: NHS NHS has paid out £12million to patients sexually abused in hospitals, GP surgeries and dental practices in the last two decades, NHS can be revealed.
article_snippet: More than 400 claims have been made against NHS workers since 1996, with dozens more assaulted by non-clinical staff.
article_snippet: The catalogue of abuse has raised serious questions about NHS's failure to protect patients, especially children, from the paedophile.
article_snippet: Kate Lampard, who carried out a review into the way NHS NHS handles abuse claims, warned that 'most NHS organisations still do not have adequately explicit and robust processes for managing most NHS organisations relationships with celebrities, important visitors, fundraisers and donors'.
article_snippet: Details of litigation claims obtained by MailOnline reveal the scale of abuse carried out by NHS staff over several years.
article_snippet: From 1996 to 2014, there were a total of 407 claims of clinical staff abusing patients in NHS.
article_snippet: From 2000 to 2014, a total of 61 claims have been made about abuse carried out in NHS by non-clinical staff.
article_snippet: Alison Millar, from law firm Leigh Day, is representing some victims of Savile but several others who have suffered abuse in NHS more recently. '
article_snippet: What we are seeing in addition to people who were abused in childhood and are coming forward, now we are seeing claims coming forward in relation to NHS and a number of cases involving children at schools with special educational needs.
highlights_snippet: EXCLUSIVE: 400 claims of sex abuse made against NHS staff since 1996 .
  
highlights_snippet: Sums relate to abuse carried out by clinical staff in hospitals and surgeries .
  
highlights_snippet: Since 2000, 61 other claims made for abuse carried out in NHS by non-staff .
  