Patient safety incidents reported (formerly indicators 5a, 5b and 5.4) (NHSOF 5.6)

• Published by: NHS Digital
• Last updated: 03 March 2017
• Topic: Health
• Licence: Open Government Licence

Summary

The number of patient safety incidents reported to the National Reporting and Learning System (NRLS) by provider organisations, per 100,000 population.

A patient safety incident is defined as ‘any unintended or unexpected incident(s) that could have, or did, lead to harm for one or more person(s) receiving NHS funded healthcare’.

Purpose

This indicator aims to measure the number of reported patient safety incidents across NHS care settings. The aim is for incidence reporting to increase as the culture of reporting all incidents spreads more widely across the NHS. The ultimate goal is that the number of reported incidents remains steady or decreases, as the habit of reporting incidents becomes routine and these are learnt from.

Current version updated: May-17

Next version due: Nov-17

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Data links

Link to the data	Format	File added	Data preview
Indicator data (.xlsx)	XLS	03 March 2017	Not available
Indicator data (.csv)	CSV	06 April 2016	Preview

Supporting documents

Link to the document	Format	Date added
Landing page	HTML	11 October 2017
Indicator quality statement	PDF	06 April 2016
Indicator specification	PDF	06 April 2016

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