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Professor John Robertson OBA

The Herald today is reporting the above 5 year total in their usual juvenile style to get a big number for the headline.

Here is the annual breakdown:

So, taking account of the inevitably lower figures during the pandemic, a relatively flat trend, perhaps falling in 2025?

Are these big numbers?

NHS England have solved their problem by just not recording these events, since 2017, but in 2018, a Blackwater Law Freedom of Information request, reported 20,235 serious incidents across 228 NHS trusts and 7 Welsh health boards in 2015/16, and 20,433 in 2016/17. This suggests roughly 20,000–21,000 serious incidents annually.

https://blackwaterlaw.co.uk/40000-serious-incidents-recorded-by-nhs-trusts/

So, all things being equal, you might expect the figure for England & Wales to be around 11 times the Scottish figure of 857, or around 9 400 but it was probably more than double that.

Why?

Leading European expert says Scotland is ‘at the very top pillar with regards to patient safety’ since 2007 but BBC Scotland desperately try to hide that from you