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 out-of-area patient bed allocation and repatriation arrangements 3 5 19 Sep 2023 Unreliable pathology report tracking and follow-up 3 7 17 Oct 2023 Unreliable patient contact during urgent recall and follow-up 3 6 11 Jan 2023 Unreliable personal emergency alarms for people requiring assistance 3 4 6 Jun 2024 Unreliable police-hospital exchange of risk information during mental-health patient supervision 3 12 3 Jun 2024 Unreliable police safety response to suspected drug swallowing by detainees 3 7 4 Mar 2025 Unreliable pre-operative preparation and safety checks 3 6 17 Jan 2018 Unreliable prescription collection and delivery arrangements 3 7 8 Mar 2022 Unreliable prison fire detection systems 3 4 18 Mar 2026 Unreliable probation recall processes 3 6 26 Jul 2024 Unreliable procedures for recognising and confirming death 3 6 18 Jul 2018 Unreliable railway-station detection and alerting for persons on the line 3 5 29 May 2020 Unreliable rapid assessment and treatment for walk-in Emergency Department patients 3 8 11 Aug 2020 Unreliable recognition and assessment of anaemia 3 8 16 Sep 2021 Unreliable recording of police investigative actions and decisions 3 10 27 Nov 2023 Unreliable recording of reported crimes 3 3 30 Apr 2021 Unreliable recording of service-user movements 3 3 8 Jun 2023 Unreliable referrals to acute dietetic services 3 4 6 Nov 2018 Unreliable regulatory control of dangerous psychoactive substances 3 3 5 Nov 2024 Unreliable remote assessment and triage of ill infants 3 5 6 Jan 2026 Unreliable response to falls at elderly people's homes 3 4 12 Aug 2024 Unreliable road closure arrangements for hazardous roads 3 4 17 Jul 2024 Unreliable safeguarding information management in schools and colleges 3 3 4 Feb 2026 Unreliable safeguarding response to medication maladministration 3 3 12 Nov 2025 Unreliable safety arrangements for organised motorsport events 3 6 5 Feb 2025

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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