Recurring concern
Failure to reliably notify primary care of changes affecting patient care
Pin
Get email alerts
Request correctionFirst reported 9 Sep 2013•Latest report 15 Oct 2025
What this concern includes
Includes failures of dedicated notification arrangements to a patient's GP or outgoing primary-care practice about material changes affecting responsibility, access, admission or continuity of the patient's care, including care transfers, hospital admissions and non-engagement with referred services.
Not included
- Excludes generic inter-agency communication or information-sharing failures where the notification is not specifically to primary care about a material change affecting patient care.
- Excludes clinical information, medication details or discharge information unless the reported unsafe condition is failure to notify primary care of the relevant care-status change.
- Excludes failures to notify patients, families, coroners, emergency services or other recipients where primary care is not the relevant notification recipient.
- Excludes routine administrative updates that do not affect responsibility, access, admission or continuity of patient care.
- Reports
- 21
- Individual concerns
- 22
- Date range
- 2013–2025
- Stated actions
- 18
Distinct published reports
A report can raise multiple concerns
First to latest report issue date
Described in published responses
Reports over time
Reports over time
Reports about this concern issued each year.
* 2026 is projected from reports observed to 7 Sep 2026.
Most frequent recipients
Most frequent recipients
Reports about this concern sent to each recipient.
Concerns and responses across reports
Only concerns grouped under this recurring concern are included. Select any concern, action or position to view the source wording.
-
Concerns raised1
Failure to inform the GP of hospital admissions involving primary care
This report raised 2 other concerns. They are not shown here because they do not form part of this recurring concern.
Responses linked to these concernsEach statement is shown once, even when linked to more than one concern.
No linked response statementsNo respondent-stated action or position is linked to these concerns in the published data.
Data last updated 7 September 2026