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1690168

	registered interest
	date	19/02/2024
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Patients: Safety
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the comments by the Royal College of Nursing that the fall in each of the past three years in applications to university nursing courses is a direct threat to patient safety, and what actions they are taking to improve patient safety in England.
	tabling member printed	Lord Allen of Kensington
	uin	HL2513
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/02/2024 answer text <p>The number of applicants continues to outstrip the places on offer. Nursing training places are competitive, and lead to an attractive and important career in the National Health Service.</p><p>Record numbers of nurses are now working in the NHS, and the first ever NHS Long Term Workforce Plan, backed by over £2.4 billion of funding, will add 24,000 more nurse and midwifery training places by 2031.</p><p>Over the last decade, the Government and system partners have delivered major initiatives to advance patient safety in the NHS. This includes implementing the first NHS Patient Safety Strategy, establishing the independent Health Services Safety Investigations Body to address the most serious patient safety incidents, and appointing the first Patient Safety Commissioner to champion the patient voice in relation to the safety of medicines and medical devices.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 29/02/2024 16:15:39 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
	tabling member	4304 label Biography information for Lord Allen of Kensington

1715080

	registered interest
	date	30/04/2024
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Patients: Safety
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government whether the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework has been fully implemented throughout the NHS to support learning and compassionate responses to families following any incidents.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
	uin	HL4221
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/05/2024 answer text <p>Compliance with the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF) is now a contractual requirement for all services commissioned under the NHS Standard Contract. Implementing the PSIRF is an ongoing process and organisations’ approach to patient safety incident response can and should evolve over time. Work is also underway to explore implementation of the PSIRF in wider services within the National Health Service, such as primary care.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 08/05/2024 14:50:39 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
	tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

421242

	registered interest
	date	14/10/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Patients: Safety
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what research is being undertaken to establish the impact of the safeguarding policy for patients on the behaviour of nurses in attending to the needs of patients.
	tabling member printed	Lord Mawson
	uin	HL2613
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2015 answer text <p>No central research has been commissioned to assess the impact of safeguarding policies for patients on the behaviour of nurses in attending to the needs of patients. Research may have been commissioned at a local level; however, this data is not collected centrally.</p><br /><p>The Care Act 2014, which placed adult safeguarding on a statutory footing for the first time, made clear the responsibilities of agencies in relation to adult safeguarding with a greater focus on the prevention of abuse and neglect.</p><br /><p>The Department is clear in statutory guidance supporting the Care Act that workers across a wide range of organisations, and not just those in frontline health and social care roles, need to be vigilant on behalf of those unable to protect themselves.</p><br /><p>Commissioners and providers will have clear policies and procedures that set out the roles of nurses and all other staff in relation to safeguarding and the training and support that is required in order for them to fulfil those roles.</p><br /><p>The Department and NHS England’s Compassion in Practice nursing strategy was published in December 2012 and is based around six core values: Care, Compassion, Competence, Communication, Courage, and Commitment. The vision aims to embed these values, known as the 6C’s, in all nursing, midwifery and care-giving settings throughout the NHS and social care to improve care for patients. A copy of the strategy is attached and can be found at:</p><br /><p><a href="http://www.england.nhs.uk/nursingvision/" target="_blank">http://www.england.nhs.uk/nursingvision/</a></p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 28/10/2015 12:21:43 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton attachment 1 file name compassion-in-practice.pdf title Compassion in Practice
	tabling member	3830 label Biography information for Lord Mawson

773000

	registered interest
	date	18/10/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Patients: Safety
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government when they expect to bring forward the Patient Safety Bill announced in the Queen's Speech in June.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
	uin	HL2201
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/10/2017 answer text <p>Patient safety has been a key priority for this Government and we have made huge strides to ensure patients have access to high quality healthcare.</p><p> </p><p>Following the Queen’s Speech in June, the Government committed to publishing a bill to establish a new independent body to investigate serious patient safety incidents in the National Health Service, with a focus on learning.</p><p> </p><p>The Health Service Safety Investigations Bill was laid in draft in Parliament on 14 September 2017 and will undergo a period of pre-legislative scrutiny. Following pre-legislative scrutiny, introduction of the Bill will depend on parliamentary time being available.</p> answering member printed Lord O'Shaughnessy question first answered 31/10/2017 15:05:55 answering member 4545 label Biography information for Lord O'Shaughnessy
	tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

100186

	registered interest
	date	21/10/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Patients: Safety
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether missed or inadequate hydrocortisone administration is included in the NHS list of Never Events.
	tabling member constituency	Oxford East
	tabling member printed	Mr Andrew Smith
	uin	211233
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2014 answer text <p>Missed or inadequate hydrocortisone administration is not currently included in the list of ‘never events’.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We can confirm that the current list of Never Events is under review and there is a consultation underway which opened online on the 6 October 2014 and closes on 31 October 2014.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 28/10/2014 15:28:25 question first ministerially corrected 28/10/2014 16:30:53 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman previous answer version 24770 answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison answering member 3918
	tabling member	95 label Biography information for Mr Andrew Smith

1019458

	registered interest
	date	03/12/2018
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Patients: Safety
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 17 October to Question 177600 on Patients, how many patient safety incidents were recorded as absconder or missing patient by hospitals in England and Wales in the National Reporting and Learning System in each NHS trust in the latest period for which information is available.
	tabling member constituency	Stockport
	tabling member printed	Ann Coffey
	uin	198237
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2018 answer text <p>During the period 1 October 2017 to 31 March 2018, the National Reporting and Learning System (NRLS) recorded 12,405 cases of ‘missing or absconded patient’ from a National Health Service trust hospital in England and Wales, including incidents involving a mental health patient. This category on the NRLS also includes patients who left without signing a ‘discharge against medical advice’ form and those who failed to return from agreed leave, on time.</p><p> </p><p>The attached tables show a breakdown of these cases by NHS trust for both England and Wales respectively. If a NHS trust does not appear in these tables, this is because the number of incidents is ‘0’.</p><p> </p><p>During the same period, the NRLS recorded 6,186 cases of ‘missing or absconded patient’ involving a mental health patient in England and Wales. This breaks down as 5,946 in England and 240 in Wales. This category on the NRLS also includes patients who left without signing a ‘discharge against medical advice’ form and those who failed to return from agreed leave on time.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 198238 question first answered 11/12/2018 13:31:32 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage attachment 1 file name PQ198237,198238.docx title PQ198237,198238 attached table
	tabling member	458 label Biography information for Ann Coffey

1046792

	registered interest
	date	23/01/2019
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Patients: Safety
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many incidents recorded in the National Patient Safety Agency's National Reporting and Learning System were classified as never events in each year since 2008.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester South
	tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
	uin	211764
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2019 answer text <p>The following table shows data collected on Never Events from 2010/11, the first year when data was available. Never Events are serious incidents or errors that should never occur if proper safety procedures are followed.</p><p><em> </em></p><p>Never Events Data was collected by the National Reporting and Learning System (NRLS) and the Strategic Executive Information System (StEIS) until 2013. Since April 2013 data has been collected from StEIS only. The data from these two systems are not directly comparable due to differences in the way incidents are identified and reported. The number of events, and definitions of events contained in the Never Event List, are modified regularly, so direct year-on-year comparisons are not appropriate.</p><p> </p><p>The data for 2017/18 is provisional and still to be confirmed in the annual data summary.</p><p> </p><p>Number of Never Events</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Data Source</p></td><td><p>Total</p></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="2"><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>NRLS</p></td><td><p>56</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>StEIS</p></td><td><p>166</p></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="2"><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>NRLS</p></td><td><p>163</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>StEIS</p></td><td><p>326</p></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="2"><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>NRLS</p></td><td><p>237</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>StEIS</p></td><td><p>329</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>StEIS</p></td><td><p>338</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>StEIS</p></td><td><p>306</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>StEIS</p></td><td><p>345</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>StEIS</p></td><td><p>445</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017/18 (provisional)</p></td><td><p>StEIS</p></td><td><p>393 (April 2017-January 2018) 76 (February-March 2018)*</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Note:</p><p>*Revised framework and list of Never Events from 1 February 2018</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 31/01/2019 17:20:06 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1131259

	registered interest
	date	11/06/2019
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Patients: Safety
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to support global patient safety.
	tabling member constituency	North Antrim
	tabling member printed	Ian Paisley
	uin	263152
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/06/2019 answer text <p>Patient safety in the National Health Service is a key priority for the Government. We also remain committed to building on the momentum we have established to address patient safety challenges globally.</p><p>The United Kingdom-led World Health Assembly Resolution, ‘Global Action on Patient Safety’, was adopted on 28 May 2019. It urges all countries to prioritise safety in the delivery of universal health coverage and establishes an annual World Patient Safety Day on 17 September.</p><p>The Government is committed to maintaining its leadership role on global patient safety.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 19/06/2019 16:18:53 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4129 label Biography information for Ian Paisley

1132763

	registered interest
	date	18/06/2019
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Patients: Safety
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What steps he is taking to ensure NHS patient safety.
	tabling member constituency	Stafford
	tabling member printed	Jeremy Lefroy
	uin	911420
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2019 answer text <p>Patient safety remains a key priority for the National Health Service. NHS Improvement and NHS England are developing a new National Patient Safety Strategy that will sit alongside the NHS Long Term Plan.</p><p>The strategy will be published this summer and will build on existing work to provide a coherent framework that the whole NHS can recognise and support</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 18/06/2019 15:03:47 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4109 label Biography information for Jeremy Lefroy

1144629

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2019
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Patients: Safety
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps the Government is taking to ensure that patient safety will be protected in the event that the UK leaves the EU without a deal.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
	tabling member printed	Paul Farrelly
	uin	286668
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p>The Department is working with its partners across Government, the National Health Service, arm’s length bodies, local authorities, industry and the wider health and care system to ensure that all relevant parties are prepared for exiting the European Union.</p><p>The quality and safety of patient care is paramount in our preparedness plans.</p><p>The work being undertaken includes securing continued supplies of medicines, medical devices and clinical products, and ensuring that the NHS continues to have sufficient staff to maintain quality of care and the safety of patients.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 09/09/2019 18:55:01 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
	tabling member	1436 label Biography information for Paul Farrelly