The National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA) has published the latest set of Organisation Patient Safety Incident data that shows that the number of patient safety incidents in England, occurring between 1 April – 30 September 2010 and reported to the NPSA by 30 November 2010 was 547,879 – an increase of 4% compared to the previous reporting period.
All trusts in England submitted incident reports for this set of data. The data also shows that 69% of patient safety incidents resulted in no harm to the patient; 24% resulted in low harm; 6% resulted in moderate harm; and 0.8% resulted in death or severe harm.
