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75 recurring concerns
Concern
Trend
Reports
Recipients
Latest report
Unreliable measurement of ambulance response times
2
2
3 Oct 2024
Failure to reliably notify receiving hospital staff of ambulance arrivals
3
6
1 Sep 2023
Unreliable category 3 ambulance assessment and response arrangements
7
9
6 Jan 2026
Failure to provide timely medical review of emergency-department patients
8
7
4 Feb 2025
Unreliable coordination of social-care-related patient flow
2
8
10 Jul 2023
Failure of ambulance information systems to transfer safety-critical clinical and operational information
12
20
18 Jun 2025
Insufficient mental health service capacity for timely patient care
40
46
24 Oct 2025
Failure to provide timely non-emergency patient transfers
2
3
19 Jul 2018
Unreliable police and ambulance coordination for patient transport assistance
2
5
20 Aug 2025
Failure to establish and address patients’ ability to access advised emergency care
2
3
7 Apr 2025
Unsafe management of ambulance calls involving callers who are alone
5
6
18 Feb 2025
Unreliable emergency-service incident grading and response-time coordination
8
17
23 Mar 2026
Failure to provide timely direction and escort for arriving paramedics
5
8
25 Nov 2024
Unreliable hospital destination selection for patient transfers
5
12
7 Dec 2023
Unreliable emergency access to hospital care
50
75
5 Jun 2026
Unreliable ambulance dispatch and resource-allocation controls
17
15
30 Jan 2025
Unreliable GP appointment triage for determining clinical urgency
9
17
4 Apr 2025
Unsafe police conveyance of mental health patients
4
11
25 Jul 2025
Unreliable categorisation and escalation of paramedic backup requests
2
4
4 Mar 2025
Failure to ensure paramedics have required emergency medicines for pre-hospital care
8
11
10 Apr 2026
Unreliable provision of safety-critical patient information to paramedics
12
15
28 Apr 2023
Unreliable ambulance-service computer systems for safety-critical information
6
20
27 Jan 2020
Unreliable transfer of safety-critical patient information within ambulance services
6
12
5 Jan 2026
Unreliable ambulance-to-emergency-department patient-information handover
4
14
26 Nov 2021
Unsafe coordination of thrombolysis care
3
6
14 Nov 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