Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to ensure that NHS staff can report patient safety incidents quickly and efficiently.

NHS England is responsible for the National Reporting and Learning System which collates information on patient safety incidents reported by staff working in NHS funded care.

There are plans to develop a new patient safety incident management system and one of the aims will be to make it quicker and easier for staff to report.