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
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