Patients: Safety

(asked on 12th June 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

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.


Answered by
Caroline Dinenage Portrait
Caroline Dinenage
This question was answered on 19th June 2018

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.

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.

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:

https://improvement.nhs.uk/resources/never-events-data/

The last column contains the total of Never Events reported by NHS trusts.

Year

Total number of Never Events

Total number of Never Events from NHS trusts

2013/14

338

322

2014/15

306

288

2015/16

442

412

2016/17

445

414

2017/18 (provisional data subject to change as local investigations take place)

469

434

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