Patient safety data

This page covers the publications that use patient safety data, for further details refer to the table below.
Publication Data Data periods About Type
Patient safety event data LFPSE Oct 2024 – present These reports set out the number of patient safety events reported to the Learn from Patient Safety Events (LFPSE) service. Official statistics in development
Never Events data StEIS Apr 2012 – present Provisional never events data is published every month as an update of the cumulative total for the current financial year. Management information
(Discontinued) National patient safety incident reports (NaPSIR) NRLS Oct 2003 – March 2022 These reports set out the number of patient safety incidents reported to the National Reporting and Learning System and describe national patterns and trends. Official statistics
(Discontinued) Organisation patient safety incident reports (OPSIR) NRLS Oct 2008 – March 2022 These reports set out the number of patient safety incidents reported to the National Reporting and Learning System by NHS trusts. Official statistics
(Discontinued) Monthly data patient safety incident reports NRLS Jul 2022 – Jun 2023 These reports provide rolling data, updated monthly, to show the number of patient safety incidents reported to the National Reporting and Learning System in the last 12 months. Official statistics

Patient safety event data – Official statistics in development

Learn from Patient Safety Events (LFPSE) service is the national repository of patient safety event data, which has been operating since July 2021. This patient safety event data official statistics in development is a quarterly publication and uses LFPSE data.

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Never events data – Management information

Never Events are defined as patient safety events that are ‘wholly preventable’ because of the existence of strong systemic protective barriers at a national level.

We publish provisional Never Events data by provider and Never Event type every month as an update of the cumulative total for the current financial year.

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(Discontinued) National patient safety incident reports – Official statistics

These reports set out the number of patient safety incidents reported to the National Reporting and Learning System and describe national patterns and trends. We have discontinued the publishing of this data. Details of this publication can be found on the archived website.

Access the archived national patient safety incident reports data

 

(Discontinued) Organisation patient safety incident reports – Official statistics

These reports set out the number of patient safety incidents reported to the National Reporting and Learning System by NHS trusts. We have discontinued the publishing of this data. Details of this publication can be found on the archived website.

Access the archived organisation patient safety incident reports data

 

(Discontinued) Monthly data patient safety incident reports – Official statistics

These reports provide rolling data, updated monthly, to show the number of patient safety incidents reported to the National Reporting and Learning System in the last 12 months. We have discontinued the publishing of this data. Details of this publication can be found on the archived website.

Access the archived monthly data patient safety incident reports data

 

Contact us

You can obtain further details about the statistics published in this section or send in your comments by emailing: patientsafety.analysis@nhs.net

 

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