A platform to explore concerns raised by coroners to prevent future deaths
In August 2021, the WHO published the Global Patient Safety Action Plan (2021-2030) to eliminate avoidable harms in healthcare. In England and Wales, legislation is in place to capture information on preventable deaths. Yet little is being done to use this information to reduce premature deaths.
We have created the Preventable Deaths Tracker to collate this information and make it accessible for all. Our Tracker also shares systematic analyses of this information, to warn against repeat hazards and highlight important lessons, to improve public safety, reduce avoidable harms, and prevent premature deaths.
What’s in the Database?
As of 22 June 2022, the Courts and Tribunals Judiciary had uploaded over 4,000 Prevention of Future Deaths reports (PFDs). The graph below illustrates the numbers of PFDs published over time. You can see the latest individual data here.
What’s new?
Medical student, Harrison France, was awarded the IUPHAR national poster prize for his research on Prevention of Future Deaths reports.
New publication in BMJ Evidence Based Medicine on preventable deaths involving medicines purchased online, available here
New publication in BJGP Open on preventable deaths involving anticoagulants in people with cardiovascular disease, available here
New publication in BMJ Evidence Based Medicine on preventable deaths during the covid-19 pandemic, available here
