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 cross-Trust transfer arrangements for complex patients 2 3 6 May 2026 Unreliable daily logs for multidisciplinary prisoner safety information 2 3 27 Apr 2023 Unreliable death notification and verification records 2 8 5 May 2021 Unreliable decisions to start, stop or abandon racing 2 4 29 Sep 2023 Unreliable detection and reporting of clinically significant genetic variants 2 6 17 Oct 2023 Unreliable disclosure of confidential medical information to police for safety purposes 2 7 10 Nov 2020 Unreliable documentation and authentication of ECG review 2 4 30 May 2017 Unreliable emergency response arrangements at railway stations 2 7 23 Jun 2022 Unreliable emergency-response arrangements for bus and coach drivers 2 5 2 Aug 2022 Unreliable escalation of patient telephone referrals to GPs 2 7 11 Mar 2024 Unreliable exhaled carbon dioxide monitoring for neonates 2 6 28 Jun 2016 Unreliable fire-response instructions for residents 2 2 16 Jun 2021 Unreliable forensic collision investigations in fatal incidents 2 2 25 Jun 2025 Unreliable fulfilment of hospital-issued medication prescriptions 2 6 21 May 2026 Unreliable fundal-height measurement and recording 2 5 24 Jul 2019 Unreliable gas safety inspection arrangements 2 14 17 Jan 2020 Unreliable Gateway referral and assessment process 2 2 4 Oct 2019 Unreliable GMP computer system for safety-critical information 2 8 15 Apr 2016 Unreliable governance and public understanding of Physician Associate practice 2 11 24 Feb 2025 Unreliable handling of external clinical correspondence in prisons 2 3 4 Dec 2019 Unreliable handling of healthcare information-disclosure constraints in emergency call advice 2 3 1 Dec 2025 Unreliable handling of safeguarding allegations 2 5 3 May 2022 Unreliable handover of patients undergoing drug detoxification 2 3 21 Jan 2019 Unreliable Haven at Millview service arrangements 2 3 27 Apr 2026 Unreliable hospital bed bureau systems for identifying available beds 2 4 7 Aug 2015

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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