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 equipment for ambulance transfer of patients
3
3
19 May 2025
Unreliable firearms licensing decisions
3
9
16 Dec 2025
Unreliable fire-safety protection for telecare clients
3
9
21 Feb 2022
Unreliable forensic psychiatric assessment pathways for criminal-justice placement decisions
3
14
28 Jul 2017
Unreliable haematology clinical review and advice
3
7
28 May 2026
Unreliable hospital bleep systems for urgent clinical communication
3
3
1 Mar 2024
Unreliable hospital switchboard access and handling of urgent clinical requests
3
8
29 Dec 2023
Unreliable identification of urgent mental-health needs during initial screening
3
3
4 Oct 2024
Unreliable land-ownership determination for safety responsibilities
3
7
7 Aug 2024
Unreliable learning from white-goods fire information
3
16
6 Dec 2024
Unreliable Liaison and Diversion processes for people in custody
3
10
9 Aug 2024
Unreliable LOLER thorough examinations of lifting equipment
3
14
26 Sep 2022
Unreliable management of food and fluid refusal in prisons
3
10
10 Mar 2026
Unreliable management of prisoners’ outstanding hospital appointments
3
5
12 Oct 2023
Unreliable medication checking in care homes
3
3
14 Apr 2022
Unreliable medication supervision and escalation for mental health patients
3
3
8 Feb 2026
Unreliable Merlin safety-critical risk information
3
1
27 Nov 2020
Unreliable metabolic monitoring for patients taking antipsychotic medication
3
4
9 Jul 2015
Unreliable monitoring and moderation of harmful social-media content
3
13
8 Dec 2025
Unreliable national sharing of safety-critical incident information
3
10
18 Dec 2020
Unreliable neonatal infection guidance
3
7
12 Aug 2023
Unreliable nurse-to-doctor escalation in primary care
3
3
19 Oct 2023
Unreliable operation of Suicide Vulnerability Risk Assessment processes
3
3
29 Nov 2024
Unreliable operation of SystmOne for safety-critical prisoner information
3
6
19 Jan 2023
Unreliable operation of the STORM emergency incident-management system
3
4
28 Mar 2024
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