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
Failure to provide appropriate support to vulnerable victims of crime 2 2 30 Apr 2021 Failure to provide banksman assistance for hazardous vehicle and load movements 2 4 19 Jul 2021 Failure to provide clear, accessible routes to care and funding for people with complex health and social needs 2 2 5 Dec 2025 Failure to provide effective health surveillance for respirable crystalline silica exposure 2 4 25 Oct 2024 Failure to provide food providers with safety-critical care information 2 5 11 May 2018 Failure to provide meaningful activity and stimulation to vulnerable patients 2 1 20 Apr 2017 Failure to provide private healthcare conversations for prisoners 2 5 11 Mar 2026 Failure to provide reliable directional signage to pedestrian underpasses 2 2 3 Dec 2020 Failure to provide required annual Care Act reviews 2 6 28 May 2021 Failure to provide required annual primary-care health reviews 2 4 8 May 2024 Failure to provide required specialling 2 1 10 May 2016 Failure to provide respectful and empathetic care to vulnerable patients 2 4 8 Nov 2022 Failure to provide safety-critical data promptly to regulators 2 4 13 Oct 2022 Failure to provide the NHS 111 mental health crisis triage service 2 1 29 Sep 2023 Failure to provide timely access to clinically required chest drainage 2 3 27 Jul 2020 Failure to provide timely ambulance-based treatment for suspected serious infection 2 3 7 Feb 2026 Failure to provide timely and continuous treatment for oral thrush 2 4 14 May 2024 Failure to provide timely non-emergency patient transfers 2 3 19 Jul 2018 Failure to provide timely orthopaedic review 2 2 29 Mar 2018 Failure to provide timely review and progression for IPP prisoners 2 5 20 Oct 2025 Failure to provide urgent support and safety-netting for adrenal crisis risk 2 6 26 Jan 2024 Failure to reassess safety risks from inadequate lighting 2 2 12 Nov 2019 Failure to recognise and respond to occult internal bleeding 2 3 13 Dec 2024 Failure to reliably apply Clare's Law domestic abuse disclosure procedures 2 9 4 May 2026 Failure to reliably complete and record required oral assessments 2 5 13 Sep 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