Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 3 September 2014, to Question 206600, in which clinical commissioning group each of the 617 incidents between 20 March 2014 and 21 July 2014 took place; and what assessment he has made of (a) patient harm, (b) excess days in hospital and (c) additional costs to the NHS resulting from those incidents.

Incidents reported to the National Reporting and Learning System (NRLS) do not include information about which clinical commissioning group (CCG) commissioned the care where the incident occurred. Only the reporting organisation is included. As such, the information requested linking the incidents to CCGs is not collected or held centrally.

The NRLS receives reports coded by level of harm. Of the 617 incidents reported between 20 March 2014 and 21 July 2014, 506 resulted in no harm, 94 ‘low’ harm, and 17 resulted in ‘moderate’ harm.

The NRLS does not record excess days in hospital or additional costs to the National Health Service arising from reported incidents.