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-referencing of related patient records
4
11
9 Dec 2025
Unreliable documentation and communication of patients’ oxygen requirements
4
5
19 Mar 2025
Unreliable domestic abuse investigations
4
15
19 Sep 2025
Unreliable ECG use and interpretation for clinical decisions
4
6
5 Jun 2026
Unreliable emergency arrangements for organised public events
4
7
10 Apr 2025
Unreliable escalation of assessed safety risk levels
4
8
26 Jul 2024
Unreliable funding responsibility and referral arrangements for required care
4
8
28 May 2026
Unreliable handling of family and friend safety concerns about prisoners
4
11
22 Dec 2021
Unreliable healthcare referral for medically vulnerable detainees
4
6
4 Mar 2025
Unreliable hospital acceptance arrangements for patients requiring treatment
4
10
16 Apr 2025
Unreliable identification and support for gambling-related harm
4
6
14 Jan 2026
Unreliable intentional-rounding systems
4
7
5 Feb 2026
Unreliable interpretation and use of evidence in regulatory inspections
4
7
16 Apr 2024
Unreliable management and control of emergency incident scenes
4
7
24 May 2016
Unreliable management of patients returning to emergency departments soon after discharge
4
12
28 Jun 2023
Unreliable medical assessments in police custody
4
16
20 Feb 2026
Unreliable medical fitness controls for divers
4
8
18 Nov 2025
Unreliable Mental Health Act assessment documentation
4
5
27 May 2026
Unreliable Mental Health Act nearest-relative decision safeguards
4
4
29 May 2025
Unreliable monitoring and management of high-risk offenders in the community
4
14
1 Aug 2024
Unreliable named-nurse allocation and identification
4
6
29 Feb 2024
Unreliable neurological referral pathways
4
8
10 Feb 2020
Unreliable operation of the Lorenzo clinical information system
4
7
31 May 2024
Unreliable packaging and identification of dispensed medication
4
13
2 Jun 2024
Unreliable paediatric abdominal-pain assessment and escalation pathways
4
9
30 Mar 2026
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