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...