National patient safety incident reports: 25 September 2019

For practical reasons we publish two sets of National patient safety incident reports (NaPSIRs) simultaneously. This publication includes reports covering incidents to June 2019, and to March 2019; the commentary analyses data to March 2019. NaPSIRs were previously called Quarterly Data Summaries (QDS).

Every six months we publish official statistics on patient safety incidents reported to the NRLS. The NaPSIRs set out the number of patient safety incidents reported to the NRLS and describe their patterns and trends. The data include all patient safety incidents reported by NHS organisations in England.

Two sets of data and analysis are presented in each NaPSIR data report:

• the number of reports made to the NRLS by quarter, using data based on the date that the report was received
• an overview of patterns and trends in incident reports using data based on the date that the incidents occurred

We produce the national 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.

You can find details of  how we identify issues and risks by reviewing patient safety incident reports, and the action 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've done to address ‘rare and under-recognised’ safety issues identified through the NRLS and other sources.

If you have any queries in relation to the data contained in the workbooks please contact us.

• National patient safety incident reports (NaPSIRs)
  
• Organisation patient safety incident reports
• Learning from patient safety incidents
• Patient safety review and response reports
• Patient safety alerts
• Patient safety data from NHS Wales