Written questions

Accident and Emergency Departments: Standards

Commons · Question 119796 · Tabled 10 Mar 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 19 Mar 2026

Question

Asked by James McMurdock

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of accident and emergency waiting times on the incidence of reported patient harm.

Answer

Answered by Karin Smyth, 19 Mar 2026

The Government is committed to transparency in reporting patient harm in the National Health Service. The Learn from Patient Safety Events (LFPSE) service provides a national database of patient safety incidents, whereby frontline workers in NHS providers...