Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many incidents of medication errors involving hospital patients with Parkinson's disease resulting in (a) no, (b) low, (c) moderate and (d) severe harm were reported to the National Reporting and Learning System in each quarter of 2016 for which data is available; and which reporting organisation reported each such incident.

A recent search of the National Reporting Learning System (NRLS) was carried out of all medication incidents reported to the NRLS between the dates 1 January 2016 and 30 September 2016.

This search used key word searches most likely to identify the requested incidents. The search mechanism available does not allow us to confirm that the patients involved with these incidents have Parkinson’s disease but it was focused on medication incidents involving drugs commonly used in Parkinson’s. It is possible that there are additional relevant incidents. No incidents resulting in severe harm were identified by this search.

The information requested is provided in the attached table.