Organisation patient safety incident reports: 23 September 2020
Data based on incidents that occurred in England from 1 October 2019 to 30 March 2020 and were submitted to the National Reporting and Learning System (NRLS) by 31 May 2020.
OPSIR commentary
The data
Every six months we publish official statistics on patient safety incidents reported to the NRLS, presented by NHS provider.
NRLS explorer tool
The explorer tool supports NHS trusts to better understand and improve their organisation’s patient safety culture by looking at the incidents they report to the NRLS. The tool creates reports tailored to individual trusts to encourage them to compare their own reporting patterns over periods of time, rather than against other trusts which may not be comparable. The format is specifically designed to highlight progress and areas where improvements could be made. Reports covering the October 2019 – March 2020 period should be available from the afternoon of 23 September 2020.
Official statistic compliance
We produce the organisation patient safety incident report official statistic publications in accordance with the code of practice for statistics. The documents below describe our compliance with the code.
Supporting documents
Supporting information on patient safety incident reporting and the NRLS, what this data is, the methodology, and why we publish it.
How we use incident reports submitted to the NRLS to improve patient safety
You can find details of how we identify issues and risks by reviewing patient safety incident reports, and the actions we take as a direct result to protect patients from harm in our Patient safety review and response reports. These reports include information and case studies on what we did to address ‘rare and under-recognised’ safety issues identified through the NRLS and other sources.
Contact us
If you have any queries in relation to the data contained in the workbooks please contact us.