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Incident Reporting

Recommendations related to incident reporting

13 recommendations 69% accepted

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Government Response
Accepted (5)
Accepted in Part (4)
Awaiting Response (4)
Recommendations in This Theme

recommendation across 5 inquiries

Across 5 inquiries

Tagged Recommendations

13 total
R16 Response Pending Muckamore Abbey Inquiry

Missed care incident reporting

If a care plan cannot be delivered due to issues, such as staffing shortages, this should be recorded as ‘missed care’ using the Trust’s or organisation’s incident reporting system.

No formal government response has been recorded for this recommendation. No independent verification has been carried out.
Northern Ireland Executi…
R45 Response Pending Muckamore Abbey Inquiry

Incident trend analysis on board dashboards

Incident reports of any violent or aggressive behaviour by either people with learning disabilities and autistic people or staff should be analysed and trend data reported on every HSCT Board’s …

No formal government response has been recorded for this recommendation. No independent verification has been carried out.
Northern Ireland Executi…
IHRD-6 Accepted Hyponatraemia Inquiry

Support for Candour Compliance

Support and protection should be given to those who properly fulfil their duty of candour.

- The Department of Health NI reported that support mechanisms for staff exercising the duty of candour were being developed (IHRD Implementation Programme, Department of …
Northern Ireland Executi… HSC Trusts
11 Accepted Morecambe Bay Investigation

Raise awareness of incident reporting and duty of candour

The University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust should identify and implement a programme to raise awareness of incident reporting, including requirements, benefits and processes. The Trust should also …

- In July 2015, the government stated that the Trust had "begun to review how investigations into incidents are carried out and started a programme …
University Hospitals of …
23 Accepted Morecambe Bay Investigation

Clear standards for incident reporting in maternity

Clear standards should be drawn up for incident reporting and investigation in maternity services. These should include the mandatory reporting and investigation as serious incidents of maternal deaths, late and …

- In July 2015, the government stated: "We accept this recommendation in principle" and announced a new Independent Patient Safety Investigation Service to supplement existing …
Department of Health and…
F100 Accepted in Part Mid Staffs Inquiry

National Patient Safety Agency functions

Individual reports of serious incidents which have not been otherwise reported should be shared with a regulator for investigation, as the receipt of such a report may be evidence that …

- In April 2025, DHSC and NHS England stated that the designation of 'serious incident' had been abolished and replaced by the Learn from Patient …
CQC
F105 Accepted Mid Staffs Inquiry

Transparency use and sharing of information

Consideration should be given to whether information from incident reports involving deaths in hospital could enhance consideration of the hospital standardised mortality ratio.

- In April 2025, DHSC and NHS England stated that mortality information is triangulated via the Learning from Deaths policy and a dashboard for NHS …
NHS England
F12 Accepted Mid Staffs Inquiry

Fundamental standards of behaviour

Reporting of incidents of concern relevant to patient safety, compliance with fundamental standards or some higher requirement of the employer needs to be not only encouraged but insisted upon. Staff …

- NHS England decommissioned the National Reporting and Learning System (NRLS) on 30 June 2024, replacing it with the Learn from Patient Safety Events (LFPSE) …
Healthcare providers
F88 Accepted in Part Mid Staffs Inquiry

Information sharing

The information contained in reports for the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations should be made available to healthcare regulators through the serious untoward incident system in order …

- The Care Quality Commission and the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) maintain a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that covers the sharing of statutory notifications, …
F98 Accepted in Part Mid Staffs Inquiry

National Patient Safety Agency functions

Reporting to the National Reporting and Learning System of all significant adverse incidents not amounting to serious untoward incidents but involving harm to patients should be mandatory on the part …

- The Learn from Patient Safety Events (LFPSE) service replaced the National Reporting and Learning System (NRLS) for recording and analyzing patient safety events (Learn …
NHS England
F99 Accepted in Part Mid Staffs Inquiry

National Patient Safety Agency functions

The reporting system should be developed to make more information available from this source. Such reports are likely to be more informative than the corporate version where an incident has …

- The Learn from Patient Safety Events (LFPSE) service uses machine learning to analyze safety events and includes recording forms for primary care settings (Learn …
NHS England
R11 Historic Allitt Inquiry

Incident report on monitoring alarm failure

We recommend that in the event of failure of an alarm on monitoring equipment, an untoward incident report should be completed and the equipment serviced before it is used again …

No formal government response has been recorded for this recommendation. No independent verification has been carried out.
Department of Health and…
R12 Historic Allitt Inquiry

Single written channel for serious incident reports

We recommend that reports of serious untoward incidents to District and Regional Health Authorities should be made in writing and through a single channel which is known to all involved …

No formal government response has been recorded for this recommendation. No independent verification has been carried out.
Department of Health and…