Friday 02 May 2025
Internal Reference Number: FOI_8485
Date Request Received: 24/02/2025 00:00:00
Date Request Replied To: 26/02/2025 00:00:00
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Request Summary: Learning from Deaths compliance
Request Category: Political Parties
| Question Number 1: I am writing to request information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 regarding your compliance with the Learning from Deaths Guidance issue by NHS England (2017) which ensures your trust complies with the National Health Service (Quality Accounts) (Amendment) Regulations 2017. This requires every NHS Trust to annually report (with a quarterly breakdown) the number of patients who died during the reporting period, how many case record reviews or investigations took place, and estimate how many deaths were determined to be likely due to problems in the care provided. It also requires the reporting of a summary of lessons learnt, what actions have been taken as a result and what the impact of these actions has been. Included in the Quality Accounts should also be the number of case record reviews and investigations relating to deaths in the previous reporting period that were only concluded in the most recent period and an estimation of how many of those deaths were due to problems in the care provided. Please provide answers to the following questions for the most recent reporting period (2023/24): Policy and Governance a) Does your trust currently comply with the requirements of the Learning from Deaths Guidance? b) If not do you have plans to comply with it and if so by when? | |
| Answer To Question 1: Yes | |
| Question Number 2: Reporting a) How many deaths were reported withing your Trust during the reporting period (2023/24)? b) How many of these deaths were reviewed, and how many were judged more likely than not to have been avoidable? c) Have you published quarterly reports on learning from deaths on your website, as required by the guidance? Please provide links to the most recent reports. d) Is information on learning from deaths included in your latest Quality Account? | |
| Answer To Question 2: Yes Please refer to public board papers and published quality accounts on our Trust website. A quarterly learning from deaths report is published and an annual quality account which contain the relevant information about deaths. https://www.salisbury.nhs.uk/about-us/the-trust-board/board-papers/ https://www.salisbury.nhs.uk/about-us/trust-reports-and-reviews/ | |
| Question Number 3: 3. Family Involvement a) Are families and carers involved in the review process where appropriate? b) Please provide the number of deaths that were reviewd in this period (2023/24) where families and carers were involved and engaged in the review. | |
| Answer To Question 3: a) Yes b) Number of deaths can be found in our published reports on the Trust website. Families and carers are involved in all reviews where a next of kin is identified. | |
| Question Number 4: Actions and Learning a) Please provide a summary of all actions taken as a result of the learning from deaths process in the last reporting period | |
| Answer To Question 4: Please refer to our latest reports published on the Trust website (as per Q.2 above). | |
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