Incident Reporting Policy

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Written by Clinical Risk Manager

This document describes the process for managing the risks associated with the reporting of all clinical/non-clinical incidents, reportable both internally and externally, involving staff, patients and others.

Aims

To ensure timely and appropriate follow-up to incidents, concerns, near misses, both clinical and non-clinical, and unexpected clinical outcomes
To identify factors contributing to these events and to develop skills in root cause analysis
To identify trends, locally and trust wide
To provide a means for identifying preventative measures or procedural changes that need to be made in order to eliminate or reduce risk of accident, injury, damage or loss
To provide a means for evaluating the effectiveness of control measures designed to improve safety for patients, staff and visitors
To help ensure the safety of patients, visitors and staff and to reduce the costs of litigation
To meet national, regional, local and legal reporting requirements
To ensure that patients or their relatives receive appropriate information about incidents in which they were involved
To provide feedback to divisions / departments and appropriate wider audiences so that the information may be used for learning
To ensure all individuals receive a full and honest response, which provides an account of what happened, why it happened, and, if appropriate, any action(s) taken to avoid recurrence.

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Last Updated ( Friday, 07 January 2011 10:34 )

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