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 control infection risks during care 7 9 28 Dec 2025 Failure to ensure adequate senior nursing leadership for safe patient care 7 11 4 Apr 2024 Failure to ensure employees have suitable personal protective equipment for workplace hazards 7 15 12 Feb 2025 Failure to ensure identified safety remedial works are completed 7 13 6 Nov 2024 Failure to ensure reliable renal monitoring for patients with renal disease 7 16 30 Jan 2026 Failure to establish patients’ consent for family involvement in mental health care 7 12 13 Nov 2023 Failure to identify and refer patients needing specialist respiratory input 7 13 30 Jan 2023 Failure to individualise medication doses to patient-specific factors 7 9 21 May 2024 Failure to initiate 999 calls promptly when life is at risk 7 11 26 May 2026 Failure to maintain contact with vulnerable people after initial engagement 7 12 10 Jul 2024 Failure to maintain safe care and support during service transitions 7 10 23 Jun 2025 Failure to provide coordinated skin care across healthcare services 7 19 11 Jun 2025 Failure to provide fetal monitoring when clinically required 7 13 8 Apr 2021 Failure to provide safe ongoing care during prolonged emergency-department stays 7 8 27 Jun 2025 Failure to provide timely access to urgent and out-of-hours endoscopy 7 8 13 Jan 2026 Failure to provide treating clinicians with relevant patient history and baseline information 7 11 30 Jul 2025 Failure to reassess treatment options when clinically indicated 7 10 25 Jun 2026 Failure to recognise agonal breathing 7 23 16 Apr 2026 Failure to recognise and respond to coercive and controlling behaviour 7 16 1 May 2026 Failure to reliably assure compliance with care plans 7 8 30 Aug 2024 Failure to reliably notify responsible consultants about admissions and significant clinical changes 7 15 3 Dec 2024 Failure to reliably record safety information received from external organisations 7 10 6 Feb 2026 Failure to reliably report self-harm and suicide risks to people able to help 7 9 18 Jun 2024 Failure to verify compliance and effectiveness of implemented safety changes 7 14 4 Jun 2025 Inadequate competence assurance and supervision for inexperienced midwives 7 11 2 Dec 2024

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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