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
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