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-Trust transfer arrangements for complex patients
2
3
6 May 2026
Unreliable daily logs for multidisciplinary prisoner safety information
2
3
27 Apr 2023
Unreliable death notification and verification records
2
8
5 May 2021
Unreliable decisions to start, stop or abandon racing
2
4
29 Sep 2023
Unreliable detection and reporting of clinically significant genetic variants
2
6
17 Oct 2023
Unreliable disclosure of confidential medical information to police for safety purposes
2
7
10 Nov 2020
Unreliable documentation and authentication of ECG review
2
4
30 May 2017
Unreliable emergency response arrangements at railway stations
2
7
23 Jun 2022
Unreliable emergency-response arrangements for bus and coach drivers
2
5
2 Aug 2022
Unreliable escalation of patient telephone referrals to GPs
2
7
11 Mar 2024
Unreliable exhaled carbon dioxide monitoring for neonates
2
6
28 Jun 2016
Unreliable fire-response instructions for residents
2
2
16 Jun 2021
Unreliable forensic collision investigations in fatal incidents
2
2
25 Jun 2025
Unreliable fulfilment of hospital-issued medication prescriptions
2
6
21 May 2026
Unreliable fundal-height measurement and recording
2
5
24 Jul 2019
Unreliable gas safety inspection arrangements
2
14
17 Jan 2020
Unreliable Gateway referral and assessment process
2
2
4 Oct 2019
Unreliable GMP computer system for safety-critical information
2
8
15 Apr 2016
Unreliable governance and public understanding of Physician Associate practice
2
11
24 Feb 2025
Unreliable handling of external clinical correspondence in prisons
2
3
4 Dec 2019
Unreliable handling of healthcare information-disclosure constraints in emergency call advice
2
3
1 Dec 2025
Unreliable handling of safeguarding allegations
2
5
3 May 2022
Unreliable handover of patients undergoing drug detoxification
2
3
21 Jan 2019
Unreliable Haven at Millview service arrangements
2
3
27 Apr 2026
Unreliable hospital bed bureau systems for identifying available beds
2
4
7 Aug 2015
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