PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Prescriptions: Safety (20 February 2024)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many prescription errors by NHS trusts were reported to the Learn from patient safety events service in 2023; and how many and what proportion of those errors were graded as causing (a) no harm, (b) low harm, (c) moderate harm, (d) severe harm and (e) death.

Asked by:
Karin Smyth (Labour)

We have been informed by NHS England that this data has not been validated, and cannot be provided at this time.

Answered by:
Maria Caulfield (Conservative)
1 March 2024