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Quarterly Data Summary: Learning and analysis

Learning from reporting

Reporting to the RLS enables the NPSA to analyse and highlight specific themes and clinical areas. In each QDS issue we feature a different area or theme.

All the following documents have been extracted from their respective QDS reports. The complete reports, including workbooks and slides, are available from the Quarterly Data Summary homepage.

Quarterly Data Summary | Issue 13: Learning and analysis

What lessons have been learnt on chest drains? (pdf, 288KB)

How do staffing issues impact on patient safety? (pdf, 591KB)

Quarterly Data Summary | Issue 12: Learning and analysis

Is nutrition a patient safety problem? (pdf, 399KB)

How has incident reporting changed over the past three years? (pdf, 418KB)

Quarterly Data Summary | Issue 11: Learning and analysis

Medication incidents in anaesthesia (pdf, 199KB)

Pressure ulcers: an analysis of RLS data (pdf, 198KB)

Quarterly Data Summary | Issue 10: Learning and analysis

Reliability in discharge processes (pdf, 203KB)
Patient identification errors from failure to use or check ID numbers correctly (pdf, 135KB)

Vaccination incidents involving children (pdf, 176 KB)

Quarterly Data Summary | Issue 9: Learning and analysis

Device-related incidents:reports of serious harm (pdf, 261KB)
Incidents related to nasogastric tubes (pdf, 253KB)

Quarterly Data Summary | Issue 8: Learning and analysis

Radiotherapy-related incidents (pdf, 155 KB)
Bleep-related incidents (pdf, 155 KB)

Quarterly Data Summary | Issue 7: Learning and analysis

Medication incidents in primary care (pdf, 177KB)
Focus on mental health (pdf,141KB)