Safety concerns raised by coroners

Explore concerns raised in Prevention of Future Deaths (PFD) reports.

Recurring concerns bring together individual concerns from different reports that describe the same underlying safety problem.

1,669 recurring concerns

Concern Trend Reports Recipients Latest report
Unreliable access to gender-affirming healthcare 5 9 25 Jul 2024 Unreliable adult safeguarding threshold assessment and response 5 6 3 Apr 2025 Unreliable allocation and referral of welfare support between police and ambulance services 5 12 25 May 2025 Unreliable ambulance emergency escalation and contingency arrangements 5 15 6 Jan 2026 Unreliable capture and reporting of anaphylaxis incidents 5 15 6 Apr 2023 Unreliable CCTV detection and tracking of people at risk 5 9 6 Sep 2021 Unreliable chest X-ray imaging and interpretation 5 11 4 Mar 2026 Unreliable clinical assessment and management of eating disorders 5 18 14 Feb 2024 Unreliable communication of detainee safety-critical risk information 5 15 27 Mar 2024 Unreliable communication of significant academic decisions and support actions to students 5 8 19 Jan 2024 Unreliable community care-coordinator provision and contact 5 10 25 Sep 2023 Unreliable community mental-health response to urgent GP concerns 5 10 14 May 2024 Unreliable confidentiality arrangements for sharing safety-critical welfare information 5 9 15 Jan 2020 Unreliable dissemination of safety alerts to relevant recipients 5 12 17 Feb 2021 Unreliable emergency-department streaming and initial assessment 5 10 28 Oct 2024 Unreliable falls risk assessment tools 5 5 19 May 2023 Unreliable guidance for decisions to stop or withhold resuscitation 5 9 19 Sep 2023 Unreliable highway-defect investigation and prioritisation 5 6 27 Feb 2026 Unreliable hospital destination selection for patient transfers 5 12 7 Dec 2023 Unreliable hospital pre-alert systems 5 10 19 May 2025 Unreliable hospital system access for temporary clinical staff 5 6 5 Dec 2025 Unreliable interpreter provision for healthcare communication 5 11 10 Dec 2025 Unreliable major haemorrhage response arrangements 5 8 13 Dec 2024 Unreliable monitoring of oxygen saturation during clinical care 5 9 21 Feb 2020 Unreliable operation of inter-provider healthcare service agreements 5 13 22 Nov 2022

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Recurring concerns bring together reports that describe the same underlying safety problem. Open one to compare the individual concerns and original wording.

Data last updated 7 September 2026