By law, people who receive coroners’ Prevention of Future Deaths reports (PFDs) must respond to the coroner within 56 days, outlining actions taken or proposed to prevent future deaths. However, no one monitors this.
The Preventable Deaths Tracker provides the first and only source of national statistics on responses to coroners’ PFDs. It tracks whether reports have published responses.
The bad news
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The good news
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The assumptions
To build these response trackers, we assume that the first PDF document uploaded to the Judiciary website is a report and subsequent files are responses. This may not always be the case, as some coroners write multiple PFD reports to different organisations, so some subsequent files are counted as responses when they are additional PFD reports. This means these calculations likely overestimate the number of responses received and underestimate the overdue responses. We’re exploring new ways to improve these calculations.
Tracking trends in all responses over time
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Cite the Tracker
Richards, GC. 2024. Preventable Deaths Tracker. https://preventabledeathstracker.net/