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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

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

934259

registered interest
date	03/07/2018
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 19 June 2018 to Question 152793 on Patients: Safety, whether any steps have been taken to determine the reason for the increase in never events.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	160274
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2018 answer text <p>The Government is committed to eradicating Never Events and ensuring best practice is shared throughout the health care system.</p><p>That is why in December 2017, the Secretary of State commissioned the Care Quality Commission (CQC) to undertake a safety thematic review of Never Events, under Section 48 of the Health and Social Care Act 2008.</p><p>The CQC’s review, which is expected to report in autumn 2018, will examine the underlying issues in National Health Service trusts in England that contribute to the occurrence of Never Events and identify the learning that can be applied to wider safety issues.</p><p>The ‘Never Events Policy and Framework’ was revised in March 2015 and the definition of Never Events changed to provide further clarity over their purpose, and; to ensure incidents are easily identifiable when they occur and are not dependent on the severity of outcome of the incident.</p><p>The list of Never Events was reviewed at the same time to ensure that they were all compliant with the revised definition and to consider any new issues that were appropriate to be introduced as Never Events into the NHS in England.</p><p>Further revisions to the Never Events policy and framework and an updated Never Events list were published in January 2018. Therefore it is not possible to compare the number of Never Events reported on an annual basis.</p><p>As mentioned in my earlier reply to Question <a href="https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2018-06-12/152793/" target="_blank">152793</a>, NHS providers are encouraged to report all Never Events, and the CQC regards failure to report a Never Event, a breach of a provider’s registration requirement.</p><p>The number of Never Events reported by independent providers is also increasing as they report more incidents to our National Reporting and Learning System.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 09/07/2018 16:40:10 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

926528

registered interest
date	18/06/2018
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, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of introducing into NHS England a scheme analogous to the Scottish National Patient Safety Programme.
tabling member constituency	South West Bedfordshire
tabling member printed	Andrew Selous
uin	154631
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/06/2018 answer text <p>We note the Scottish National Patient Safety Programme aims to improve the safety and reliability of health and social care, and reduce harm.</p><p> </p><p>Like Scotland, our aim is to improve patient safety and for the National Health Service to be one of the safest healthcare systems in the world.</p><p> </p><p>Following the tragic events at Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust, the Government has introduced a number of significant programmes to promote and encourage better regulation, greater transparency and candour, and a culture of learning in the NHS in England, drawing from other safety critical industries.</p><p> </p><p>To further drive a culture of learning, the NHS trusts are required to review and investigate deaths of their patients and publish the learning and steps they are taking to improve patient safety. An independent Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch (HSIB) was set up in April 2016 and is now conducting major safety investigations into the most serious risks for patients, with a specific focus on system-wide learning and improvement. The HSIB’s remit was extended in April 2018 to include the investigations of early neonatal deaths, term stillbirths and cases of severe brain injury in babies as well as all cases of maternal death. Work is underway to further improve medicines safety including the accelerated rollout of electronic prescribing in hospitals, monitoring higher risk prescribing practice linked to hospital admissions, and addressing so called ‘human factors’ that contribute to errors.</p><p> </p><p>In June 2018, the Government announced a further package of measures to improve patient safety including a new National Clinical Improvement Programme that will provide NHS consultants with confidential data on their clinical results and help improve patient outcomes, the introduction of a system of medical examiners and the intention to extend the Learning from Deaths programme to general practice and ambulance trusts to promote learning and enable health organisations and healthcare professionals to learn from one another.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 21/06/2018 16:56:59 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous

922422

registered interest
date	12/06/2018
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 never events were recorded by NHS trusts in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	152793
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/06/2018 answer text <p>Never Events are serious incidents that are entirely preventable because guidance or safety recommendations providing strong systemic protective barriers are available at a national level, and should have been implemented by all healthcare providers.</p><p> </p><p>National Health Service providers are encouraged to report all Never Events through the National Reporting and Learning System. The Care Quality Commission views failure to report a Never Event as a breach of a provider’s registration requirement and which may attract sanctions.</p><p> </p><p>Below are the total numbers of Never Events for the last five years which are published online by NHS Improvement and can be accessed at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://improvement.nhs.uk/resources/never-events-data/" target="_blank">https://improvement.nhs.uk/resources/never-events-data/</a></p><p> </p><p>The last column contains the total of Never Events reported by NHS trusts.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Total number of Never Events</p></td><td><p>Total number of Never Events from NHS trusts</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>338</p></td><td><p>322</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>306</p></td><td><p>288</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>442</p></td><td><p>412</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>445</p></td><td><p>414</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017/18 (provisional data subject to change as local investigations take place)</p></td><td><p>469</p></td><td><p>434</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 19/06/2018 10:18:13 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders