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64th Report - Costs of clinical negligence
Public Accounts Committee
HC 1234
Published 30 January 2026
Recommendations
14
Rejected
Insufficient use of NHS data resources for patient safety insights and improvement.
Recommendation
It is generally accepted that learning from past incidents is fundamental to improving patient safety, but the 2025 Dash review found that insufficient use is made of the NHS’s data resources to generate insights and support improvement.28 NHS England told …
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Government Response Summary
The government disagrees with establishing a national system for sharing data, stating that existing data sharing arrangements and patient safety data are already in place.
HM Treasury
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15
Rejected
Lack of centralised learning causes repeated patient safety incidents across trusts.
Recommendation
Written evidence submitted to us raised concerns about a lack of centralised learning leading to incidents being repeated across multiple trusts.31 When asked what it was doing to improve systemic learning from patient safety incidents, NHS England told us it …
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Government Response Summary
The government disagrees with establishing a national system for sharing data, stating that existing data sharing arrangements and patient safety data are already in place.
HM Treasury
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