Recurring concern
Unreliable completion and receipt of incident review reports
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Request correctionFirst reported 2 Jul 2014•Latest report 30 Jan 2025
What this concern includes
Includes failures in the dedicated incident review-report process involving preparation, completion, responsible sign-off, transmission, receipt or tracking of reports needed for safety review and corrective action.
Not included
- Excludes failures in the underlying incident investigation or the quality of its analysis where completion or receipt of the report is not deficient.
- Excludes generic patient-safety incident reporting, post-incident learning or action implementation failures unless the assertion specifically concerns completion or receipt of an incident review report.
- Excludes ordinary clinical or operational records and reports that are not incident review reports or their directly equivalent safety-review reports.
- Excludes delays caused solely by external legal, coronial or regulatory proceedings when the incident review-report process itself is not deficient.
- Reports
- 13
- Individual concerns
- 13
- Date range
- 2014–2025
- Stated actions
- 14
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.
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Concerns raised1
Delays in receipt of Serious Incident Analysis reports
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.
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Concerns raised1
Failure to complete cold debriefs and interim incident reports
This report raised 8 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.
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Concerns raised1
Failure of the process for conducting and completing SIRs
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