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<p>The National Reporting and Learning System (NRLS) has been in operation since 2003
and supports NHS England to fulfil statutory duties relating to the collation of and
learning from patient safety incident reports.</p><p> </p><p>NRLS is principally a
secondary use service and collects patient safety incident records that are recorded
on healthcare providers’ Local Risk Management Systems (LRMS). The primary use of
patient safety incident records is by the provider organisation that collects the
data on its own LRMS and uses the information to support local safety improvement
efforts. NRLS was created to support the national collation of patient safety incident
records from LRMS and some of the existing LRMS predate the introduction of the NRLS.</p><p>
</p><p>Given its age, NRLS is being replaced with the new Learn From Patient Safety
Events (LFPSE) service. More information is available at the following link:</p><p>
</p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/patient-safety/learn-from-patient-safety-events-service/"
target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/patient-safety/learn-from-patient-safety-events-service/</a></p><p>
</p><p>NRLS, and its replacement LFPSE, support the collation of patient safety incident
records from members of the public as well as from LRMS. NRLS does this through the
Patient and Public eForm, which is available at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a
href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/patient-safety/report-patient-safety-incident/#public"
target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/patient-safety/report-patient-safety-incident/#public</a></p><p>
</p><p>As part of the development of the LFPSE service, work is underway to determine
how best to support the future collection of patient safety incidents information
from patients and the public. A report on the first stage of this work, published
in October 2023, is available at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/the-learn-from-patient-safety-events-lfpse-service-patient-and-family-discovery-report/"
target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/the-learn-from-patient-safety-events-lfpse-service-patient-and-family-discovery-report/</a></p><p>
</p><p>Information on how patient safety incident records are collated and used by
NHS England is available at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/patient-safety/using-patient-safety-events-data-to-keep-patients-safe/"
target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/patient-safety/using-patient-safety-events-data-to-keep-patients-safe/</a></p><p>
</p><p>No data is held on patient safety incident recording prior to the introduction
of the NRLS in 2003. Data on the number of patient safety incidents collected by NRLS
is available at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/patient-safety/national-patient-safety-incident-reports/"
target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/patient-safety/national-patient-safety-incident-reports/</a></p>
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