Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many Preventing Future Death reports have been submitted by coroners to NHS trusts since 2013.

Coroners have a duty under regulations 28 and 29 of the Coroners (Investigations) Regulations 2013 to send the Chief Coroner their Prevention of Future Deaths (PFD) reports and the responses to them. These are uploaded to the Chief Coroner’s website under a number of categories. 1,447 PFD reports have been posted under the category of “Hospital Death (Clinical Procedures and medical management) related deaths”, since 2013. These however include PFD reports that were issued to private hospitals and will not include any reports issued to NHS Trusts for deaths in the community. Determining how many of the PFD reports were to NHS trusts alone could only be done at disproportionate cost.

The full list of PFD reports since 2013 can be accessed online at: https://www.judiciary.uk/subject/prevention-of-future-deaths/