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 safety assessment during vulnerable-person home visits
3
7
3 Oct 2018
Unreliable safety controls for shooting-range operations
3
3
10 Jun 2021
Unreliable safety review and escalation when clinical appointments are delayed or cancelled
3
10
25 Mar 2024
Unreliable second prison reception health screening
3
4
13 Jul 2017
Unreliable security alarms for detecting insecure exits and access
3
7
31 Jul 2017
Unreliable social-care case review and closure decisions
3
3
14 Nov 2023
Unreliable specialist support for reducing and withdrawing from prescribed opioids
3
5
3 Mar 2026
Unreliable stability controls for wheeled furniture in patient-care areas
3
5
6 Jun 2023
Unreliable supervision and competence assurance for trainee medical staff
3
6
13 Jan 2025
Unreliable tracking and completeness checking of faxed referrals and information
3
7
14 May 2018
Unreliable tracking and transfer of completed mental health-related forms
3
18
6 Jul 2021
Unreliable transfer of cases between police forces
3
4
19 Oct 2025
Unreliable transfer of hospital discharge information to prison healthcare
3
3
10 Aug 2016
Unreliable use of Mental Health Act holding powers
3
9
19 Dec 2022
Unreliable vehicle reversing safety controls around pedestrians
3
1
19 Jul 2021
Unsafe administration of intravascular contrast media
3
7
14 Mar 2025
Unsafe amiodarone treatment management
3
4
20 Mar 2022
Unsafe bus stop siting and pedestrian access
3
5
10 Apr 2019
Unsafe catheterisation practice
3
4
26 Sep 2017
Unsafe coordination of thrombolysis care
3
6
14 Nov 2025
Unsafe endotracheal tube management
3
11
6 Sep 2021
Unsafe feticide and post-feticide care
3
5
3 Nov 2021
Unsafe home-visit policies for clinical and personal-safety decisions
3
4
29 Aug 2019
Unsafe implementation of early discharge pathways
3
4
7 Jan 2016
Unsafe implementation of Right Care, Right Person attendance decisions
3
4
1 Dec 2025
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