Recurring concern

Failure to provide patient-centred care and decisions

First to latest report 12 Mar 2014 — 14 Jan 2026

Reports that mention this concern
12
Times this concern has been raised
12
Stated actions linked to this concern
16

What this concern includes

Includes failures in patient-centred care delivery or patient-care decision-making where staff or services lose sight of the individual patient and fail to account for their needs, circumstances, preferences or relevant safety information.

What is not included
  • Excludes failures belonging to a separately named clinical, safeguarding, statutory or operational system where that system provides the more specific supported boundary.
  • Excludes generic poor communication, documentation, staffing or governance deficiencies unless they directly result in non-patient-centred care or decisions.
  • Excludes dissatisfaction or disagreement with a clinical decision where the decision was individualised, adequately informed and appropriately involved the patient.
  • Excludes failures concerning family or carer involvement where patient-centred care is not the shared unsafe condition.

Reports and published responses 12 reports

See individual reports that have raised this concern, and the actions taken in response

  1. Isle of Wight

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    Cuthbert Anthony Stanley Hingert · Prevention of Future Deaths report

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    Report summary

    Cuthbert Anthony Stanley Hingert was admitted to hospital with shortness of breath and possible acute coronary syndrome, during which duplicate doses of antiplatelet and anticoagulant medications were given. He later became confused, fell and sustained a subdural haematoma, skull fracture and subarachnoid haemorrhage, dying in hospital on 5 March 2017. Concerns included failures to check the medicines database, inappropriate or potentially inappropriate prescribing, delayed documentation, inadequate staff training and failure to report a medication incident according to protocol.

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    Source evidence

    How this individual concern was interpreted

    PFD Monitor created a concise, searchable interpretation from the report wording shown below.

    PFD Monitor interpretation

    Failure to ensure safe clinical decision-making when prescribing hypnotics to confused patients

    Wider context from the report

    “6. A decision was made to treat Mr Hingert, who was already confused, with the hypnotic Zopiclone, which may not have been a sound clinical decision. ”

    Source location

    Cuthbert Anthony Stanley Hingert · Prevention of Future Deaths report
    Page 2 · concerns

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  2. Teesside

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    Andrew Ronald Hall · Prevention of Future Deaths report

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    Report summary

    Andrew Ronald Hall, an inmate at HM Holme House Prison, died on 27 March 2009 after causing incised wounds to his neck in a healthcare unit cell. The concerns included inadequate communication and documentation about his mental health and self-harm risk, failures in medication administration and observation, and deficiencies in CCTV quality, monitoring and staff arrangements.

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    Source evidence

    How this individual concern was interpreted

    PFD Monitor created a concise, searchable interpretation from the report wording shown below.

    PFD Monitor interpretation

    Failure by mental health and general nursing staff to take account of system 1 entries

    Wider context from the report

    “6. That both mental health staff and general nursing staff inadequately took into account the entry made by ████████ ”

    Source location

    Andrew Ronald Hall · Prevention of Future Deaths report
    Page 1 · concerns

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Actions and positions describe what organisations say in published responses. Implementation is not independently verified.

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Data last updated 7 September 2026