National Medical Examiner · Annual report

National Medical Examiner’s report for 2025

Reporting year 20250 national asks indexed

National asks

0 indexed

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Annual statistics

2025 reporting year · source figures

Patient safety concerns identified

2,018 concerns

As detailed in the report, key achievements in 2025 include: half a million bereaved families every year are now being given an opportunity to raise concerns about care and to ask questions about what caused the death of their loved ones, with 97% taking up this opportunity independent scrutiny of all deaths not investigated by coroners, medical examiners in England and Wales reported they provide

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