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164380

	registered interest
	date	24/11/2014
	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, what the rates of (a) pulmonary embolism, (b) blood-stream infection and (c) foreign body left in after procedure has been in England in each year since 2000.
	tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton South West
	tabling member printed	Paul Uppal
	uin	215682
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2014 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p>The Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) has provided data on (a) a count of finished admission episodes (FAEs) where there was a primary diagnosis of pulmonary embolism and the number of FAEs as a rate per 100,000 of the total number of FAEs and (b) a count of finished consultant episodes (FCEs) with a primary or secondary diagnosis of pulmonary embolism and the number of FCEs as a rate per 100,000 of the total number FCEs, for the years 2000-01 to 2012-13.</p><p> </p><p>This is summarised in the following table:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>FAEs with primary diagnosis of &quot;pulmonary embolism&quot;</p></td><td><p>Rate per 100,000 of total FAEs</p></td><td><p>FCEs with primary or secondary diagnosis of &quot;pulmonary embolism&quot;</p></td><td><p>Rate per 100,000 of total FCEs</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2000-01</p></td><td><p>15,179</p></td><td><p>136.5</p></td><td><p>32,937</p></td><td><p>268.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2001-02</p></td><td><p>14,735</p></td><td><p>133.0</p></td><td><p>33,537</p></td><td><p>271.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2002-03</p></td><td><p>15,536</p></td><td><p>136.6</p></td><td><p>37,093</p></td><td><p>291.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2003-04</p></td><td><p>16,095</p></td><td><p>136.3</p></td><td><p>39,196</p></td><td><p>294.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2004-05</p></td><td><p>15,621</p></td><td><p>129.1</p></td><td><p>40,059</p></td><td><p>292.3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2005-06</p></td><td><p>16,347</p></td><td><p>128.9</p></td><td><p>43,360</p></td><td><p>300.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2006-07</p></td><td><p>16,629</p></td><td><p>128.1</p></td><td><p>46,685</p></td><td><p>315.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2007-08</p></td><td><p>16,948</p></td><td><p>125.7</p></td><td><p>49,114</p></td><td><p>319.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008-09</p></td><td><p>18,214</p></td><td><p>128.7</p></td><td><p>56,029</p></td><td><p>345.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009-10</p></td><td><p>19,763</p></td><td><p>135.9</p></td><td><p>62,367</p></td><td><p>371.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>20,908</p></td><td><p>140.4</p></td><td><p>67,477</p></td><td><p>390.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>21,525</p></td><td><p>143.3</p></td><td><p>70,466</p></td><td><p>403.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>23,578</p></td><td><p>155.7</p></td><td><p>79,058</p></td><td><p>446.3</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Public Health England (PHE) collects data on blood stream infections caused by bacteria (bacteraemia) relating to specific organisms as part of its mandatory Healthcare Associated Infection surveillance programmes.</p><p> </p><p>Microbiology laboratories in England, Wales and Northern Ireland also voluntarily submit data to PHE relating to episodes of bacteraemia and blood stream infections caused by fungi (fungaemia).</p><p> </p><p>The data summarised in Tables 1-3, taken from PHE’s mandatory surveillance programmes, represent bacteraemia cases reported in England resulting from: Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA); Methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA) and E.coli where comparable data is available. Rates of all reported cases per 100,000 population are included, where available.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="8"><p>Table 1a: All reported cases of MRSA bacteraemia (April 2007-March 2014)</p><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Financial year</p></td><td><p>April 2007 to March 2008</p></td><td><p>April 2008 to March 2009</p></td><td><p>April 2009 to March 2010</p></td><td><p>April 2010 to March 2011</p></td><td><p>April 2011 to March 2012</p></td><td><p>April 2012 to March 2013</p></td><td><p>April 2013 to March 2014</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Count</p></td><td><p>4,451</p></td><td><p>2,935</p></td><td><p>1,898</p></td><td><p>1,481</p></td><td><p>1,116</p></td><td><p>924</p></td><td><p>862</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Rate per 100,000 population</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>3.6</p></td><td><p>2.8</p></td><td><p>2.1</p></td><td><p>1.7</p></td><td><p>1.6</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><em>Note: </em>Data is available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/mrsa-bacteraemia-annual-data" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/mrsa-bacteraemia-annual-data</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="4"><p>Table 2: All reported cases of MSSA bacteraemia (April 2011 - March 2014)</p><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Financial year</p></td><td><p>April 2011 to March 2012</p></td><td><p>April 2012 to March 2013</p></td><td><p>April 2013 to March 2014</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Count</p></td><td><p>8,767</p></td><td><p>8,812</p></td><td><p>9,290</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Rate per 100,000 population</p></td><td><p>16.5</p></td><td><p>16.5</p></td><td><p>17.4</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><em>Note: </em>Data is available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/mssa-bacteraemia-annual-data" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/mssa-bacteraemia-annual-data</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="3"><p>Table 3: All reported cases of <em>E. coli </em>bacteraemia (April 2012-March 2014)</p><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Financial year</p></td><td><p>April 2012 to March 2013</p></td><td><p>April 2013 to March 2014</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Count</p></td><td><p>32,309</p></td><td><p>34,275</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Rate per 100,000 population</p></td><td><p>60.4</p></td><td><p>64.1</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><em>Note: </em>Data is available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/escherichia-coli-e-coli-bacteraemia-annual-data" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/escherichia-coli-e-coli-bacteraemia-annual-data</a></p><p> </p><p>The data summarised in Table 4, taken from PHE’s voluntary surveillance database, represents all voluntarily reported patient episodes involving either bacteraemia and/or fungaemia for the period of January 2008 to December 2012 in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="6"><p>Table 4: Patient episodes involving either bacteraemia and/or fungaemia 2008-2012, England, Wales and Northern Ireland</p><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Calendar Year</p></td><td><p>2008</p></td><td><p>2009</p></td><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>2012</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Count</p></td><td><p>95,931</p></td><td><p>94,190</p></td><td><p>92,867</p></td><td><p>94,166</p></td><td><p>95,647</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><em>Note: </em>Data extracted from the Public Health England (PHE) voluntary surveillance database, LabBase2, on 3 December 2013.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Before 2009, information was not collated on foreign bodies retained after procedures (which is classed as a ‘never event’) and so we are unable to provide data for the period prior to 2009.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In 2009-10, there were nine retained foreign objects post procedure reported during this period.</p><p> </p><p>In 2010-11, there were 67 retained foreign object never events reported to Strategic Executive Information System (STEIS) and 22 reported to the National Reporting and Learning Service (NRLS).</p><p> </p><p>In 2011-12, there were 161 retained foreign object never events reported to STEIS and 86 reported to the NRLS in 2011-12.</p><p> </p><p>In 2012-13, there were 130 retained foreign object never events reported to STEIS and 124 reported to the NRLS in 2012-13 (please note incidents are potentially reported to both systems but the exact degree of overlap of reported incidents during the period 2010-11 and 2011-12 is unclear).</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Since April 2013 reports made to the NRLS and STEIS have been directly reconciled to provide a single total and provisional data published by NHS England shows 123 retained object never events were reported in 2013-14 and 44 in the six months to September 2014:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.england.nhs.uk/ourwork/patientsafety/never-events/ne-data/" target="_blank">http://www.england.nhs.uk/ourwork/patientsafety/never-events/ne-data/</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Methods for identifying and collating the data from two systems (NRLS and STEIS) have changed over the years, with specific reporting fields for Never events replacing keyword searches, and year-end attempts to reconcile events reported in both systems replaced with direct communication as and when incidents were reported. This is a further reason why events from the earlier years are not directly comparable. The numbers of Never Events reported for 2010-11 and 2011-12 were reported in Annex A of the ‘<em>The never events policy framework: An update to the never events policy</em>’</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/213046/never-events-policy-framework-update-to-policy.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/213046/never-events-policy-framework-update-to-policy.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>It should be noted that the updated policy expanded the list of never events from 8 to 25 in 2012 and the detail of definitions of retained foreign objects was also clarified in The never events list; 2013/14 update:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/nev-ev-list-1314-clar.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/nev-ev-list-1314-clar.pdf</a>.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Note numbers in different years are not directly comparable due to these definitional changes.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 01/12/2014 17:19:54 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
	tabling member	4078 label Biography information for Paul Uppal

1692731

	registered interest
	date	29/02/2024
	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	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how her Department records instances of near misses for (a) surgical fires and (b) other patient safety incidences.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	16354
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/03/2024 answer text <p>Any unexpected or unintended incident which could have or did lead to harm to one or more patients can be recorded on the Learn from Patient Safety Events (LFPSE) service, to support local and national learning. This can include surgical fires or burns. We are informed that NHS England does not define the severity of harm related to surgical fires or burns specifically. Grading the severity of harm related to a patient safety incident that is recorded on LFPSE, should be done using NHS England’s guidance on recording patient safety events and levels of harm, which asks that near miss events be graded as no harm. The guidance is available at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/policy-guidance-on-recording-patient-safety-events-and-levels-of-harm/" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/policy-guidance-on-recording-patient-safety-events-and-levels-of-harm/</a></p><p> </p><p>If a surgical fire or burn is assessed locally and constitutes a patient safety event, it would fall under the scope of the Care Quality Commission’s (CQC) Regulations 16 or 18, and must be reported to the CQC. This means that the most serious surgical fires or burns which result in serious harm or the death of a service user, are subject to mandatory reporting. NHS trusts can comply with this requirement by recording patient safety events using the LFPSE service, and NHS England shares all such data with the CQC, who are responsible for regulating compliance with CQC regulations. CQC Regulations 16 and 18 are available respectively, at the following links:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.cqc.org.uk/guidance-providers/regulations/regulation-16-notification-death-service-user" target="_blank">https://www.cqc.org.uk/guidance-providers/regulations/regulation-16-notification-death-service-user</a></p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.cqc.org.uk/guidance-providers/regulations-enforcement/regulation-18-notification-other-incidents" target="_blank">https://www.cqc.org.uk/guidance-providers/regulations-enforcement/regulation-18-notification-other-incidents</a></p><p> </p><p>Although the recording of wider patient safety events onto LFPSE is a voluntary process, providers are encouraged to record all patient safety incidents, irrespective of the level of harm, to support local and national learning.</p><p> </p><p>The LFPSE service and its predecessor, the National Reporting and Learning System, do not have specific categories for surgical fires or burns. Determining how many patient safety events related to surgical fires or burns were recorded by National Health Service providers in each of the last five years would require a search of the free text of recorded patient safety events, using key words, and a subsequent expert clinical review of all potential records to determine relevance to the question. This could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield grouped question UIN 16353 16355 question first answered 08/03/2024 14:06:43 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1668521

	registered interest
	date	08/11/2023
	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 accountability mechanisms are included in the NHS England Learn from Patient Safety Events system to hold (a) commissioners and (b) providers to account on patient safety (i) records and (ii) incidences.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	805
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/11/2023 answer text <p>Any unexpected or unintended incident which could have or did lead to harm to one or more patients can be recorded on the Learn from Patient Safety Events (LFPSE) service, to support local and national learning. This would include incidents caused by surgical fires or burns.</p><p>Providers are encouraged to foster a positive safety culture among their staff, and ensure an appropriate local focus on incident recognition, recording, and response.</p><p>Recording onto LFPSE is a voluntary process, except where reporting to NHS England fulfils duties for other statutory mandatory requirements, such as reporting notifiable incidents to the Care Quality Commission (CQC). NHS England shares all such data with the CQC. Notifiable incidents include events resulting in “serious harm” or the death of a service user, and therefore the most serious surgical fires or burns are subject to mandatory reporting. However, providers are encouraged to record all patient safety incidents, irrespective of the level of harm, to support local and national learning.</p><p>Published National Safety Standards for Invasive Procedures include a requirement for a risk assessment and management plan to minimise the risk of surgical fires in the perioperative environment. They require that multidisciplinary team training should involve rehearsal and analysis of typical and emergency scenarios, such as a surgical fire, and that prior to surgery, any fire risk and the management plan are discussed and confirmed.</p><p>LFPSE is not designed for performance management. However, it supports certain oversight functions within providers, including the ability to review all records submitted by staff, and to mark them as either meeting certain other requirements, such as notification to the CQC, or not. This supports good governance within the provider, encouraging scrutiny of recorded events, and the fulfilment of other statutory or national policy reporting requirements. LFPSE data is being made available to integrated care boards and regional teams to facilitate their roles in safety oversight and provider improvement support.</p><p>NHS England does not hold or collect information on the number of surgical fires which occur. Although incidents where serious harm and death are captured within LFPSE, and trusts may choose to record lower levels of harm, there is no category for surgical fires within the existing reporting system with which they could be counted and therefore any count would not be definitive.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield grouped question UIN 804 806 807 808 question first answered 15/11/2023 17:25:08 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

164381

	registered interest
	date	24/11/2014
	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, how many hospitals have been rated poor with regards to open and honest reporting of patient safety incidents in each month since May 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton South West
	tabling member printed	Paul Uppal
	uin	215683
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2014 answer text <p>As at 28 November 2014, 91 trusts were recorded as poor (red) against the open and honest reporting indicator. Data prior to June 2014 is not available in this form.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 01/12/2014 17:30:33 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
	tabling member	4078 label Biography information for Paul Uppal

142222

	registered interest
	date	06/11/2014
	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, what recent assessment he has made of the uptake of the Sign up to Safety campaign in each (a) region and (b) clinical commissioning group area.
	tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton South West
	tabling member printed	Paul Uppal
	uin	213774
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/11/2014 answer text <p>As at the end of October 2014, a total number of 136 organisations have agreed to participate in the Sign up to Safety campaign. A breakdown by Academic Health Science Network (AHSN) is as follows:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong> </strong></p><p>By AHSN region</p></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>Yorkshire and Humber</p></td><td><p>9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West of England</p></td><td><p>7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Midlands</p></td><td><p>8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wessex</p></td><td><p>4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>London</p></td><td><p>24</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South West Peninsula</p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Oxford</p></td><td><p>4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North West Coast</p></td><td><p>15</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North East and North Cumbria</p></td><td><p>8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Kent, Surrey and Sussex</p></td><td><p>13</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Greater Manchester</p></td><td><p>9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Eastern</p></td><td><p>11</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East Midlands</p></td><td><p>16</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>136</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The information has not been split by clinical commissioning group. However 16 clinical commissioning groups have signed up to the campaign to date.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 18/11/2014 15:40:10 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
	tabling member	4078 label Biography information for Paul Uppal

442684

	registered interest
	date	05/01/2016
	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, what steps are being taken to ensure that all NHS trusts are (a) identifying patient safety incidents, (b) conducting full investigations to identify the causes of such incidents and (c) implementing measures to prevent recurring such incidents.
	tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton North East
	tabling member printed	Emma Reynolds
	uin	21014
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2016 answer text <p>Currently, NHS England has a leadership role for patient safety in the National Health Service and supports providers to identify, understand and manage risks that might affect the safety of patients. The primary source for identifying risks is the National Reporting and Learning System (NRLS). The NRLS operates as a database and holds over 1.4 million locally reported patient safety incidents. These are reviewed to help address the identified issues or risks in the NHS. NHS England alerts NHS trusts of emerging patient safety risks via the National Patient Safety Alerting System – a three-stage alerting process which ensures the timely sharing of relevant safety information. The system also encourages information sharing between organisations so that examples of best practice can be widely adopted.</p><p>NHS trusts are expected to review their own patient safety incidents. The revised Serious Incident Framework published in March 2015 has sought to simplify the incident management process and ensure that serious incidents are identified correctly, investigated thoroughly and, most importantly, learned from to prevent the likelihood of similar incidents happening again.</p><p>The NHS standard contract also stipulates that providers must consider and respond to the recommendations arising from any audit, Serious Incident report or Patient Safety Incident report.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 11/01/2016 09:46:58 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
	tabling member	4077 label Biography information for Emma Reynolds

177532

	registered interest
	date	03/02/2015
	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	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many Strategic Executive Information System reports dating from before the Health and Social Care Act 2012 are waiting conclusion.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
	tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
	uin	223214
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2015 answer text <p>Data and information safeguarding was strengthened under the Health and Social Care Act 2012. When data was extracted on 4 February the Strategic Executive Information System (STEIS) held reports of 1,255 Serious Incidents whose status was not classified as ‘closed’. It is not possible to determine from the database which of these incidents had been resolved locally.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The principles for responding to Serious Incidents are set out in the current Serious Incident Framework, published in March 2013, and this includes the roles and responsibilities of providers and commissioners including effective governance and learning from a serious incident.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>NHS England is currently refreshing the Serious Incident Framework to take account of supporting all the guidance produced since March 2013 over 2013-14 and to reflect operational feedback on the implementation of the 2013 Framework.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 10/02/2015 18:02:58 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
	tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

178541

	registered interest
	date	09/02/2015
	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	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to Patient Safety Alert: Improving medication error incident reporting and learning, published by NHS England on 20 March 2014, which NHS trusts have (a) indentified a board-level director with responsibility for overseeing medication error incident reporting and learning, (b) e-mailed the contact details of a Medication Safety Officer to the Central Alerting System and (c) identified a multi-professional group to regularly review medication error incident reports.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne North
	tabling member printed	Catherine McKinnell
	uin	223770
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2015 answer text <p>Data was extracted on 10 February 2015 from the Central Alerting System (CAS) and the table attached shows that 244 trusts* have recorded that they have completed the actions required by the Alert including the information requested above.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><em>*Note:</em> This figure is based on the names that trusts are registered under in CAS.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 24/02/2015 14:27:11 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter attachment 1 file name Table of actions.docx title CAS- Trusts with contact details&completed actions
	tabling member	4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell

984845

	registered interest
	date	10/10/2018
	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, 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 care setting in the latest period for which information is available.
	tabling member constituency	Stockport
	tabling member printed	Ann Coffey
	uin	177600
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2018 answer text <p>During the period 1 October 2017 to 31 March 2018 National Reporting and Learning System (NRLS) recorded 12,398 cases of “missing or absconded patient” across England and Wales. This category on the NRLS includes patients who left without signing a ‘discharge against medical advice’ form and those who failed to return from agreed leave on time, rather than solely reports of patients who absconded or were reported missing.</p><p> </p><p>A breakdown by care settings for both England and Wales is provided in the following table.</p><p> </p><p>Incidents reported as “Missing or absconded patient”, by care setting for England and Wales</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Care Setting</p></td><td><p>England</p></td><td><p>Wales</p></td><td><p>Total</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Acute / general hospital</p></td><td><p>5,781</p></td><td><p>146</p></td><td><p>5,927</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Ambulance service</p></td><td><p>15</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>15</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Community and general dental service</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Community Nursing, medical and therapy service (incl. community hospital)</p></td><td><p>312</p></td><td><p>57</p></td><td><p>369</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Community optometry / optician services</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Community pharmacy</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>General practice</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Learning disabilities service</p></td><td><p>87</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>89</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Mental health service</p></td><td><p>5,754</p></td><td><p>239</p></td><td><p>5,993</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>11,954</p></td><td><p>444</p></td><td><p>12,398</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 17/10/2018 13:48:41 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	458 label Biography information for Ann Coffey

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