Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to implement continuous surveillance in critical care units to monitor patient safety.

We are clear that advancing patient safety must remain a top priority for the National Health Service. Whilst the Department has no current plans to implement continuous surveillance in critical care units, we have made significant strides to advance patient safety and the response to harm over the last decade. The measures we have introduced are about creating a transparent, learning culture across the health system. They include implementing key programmes from the first NHS Patient Safety Strategy (2019) to help create a positive safety culture and a widespread focus on reducing avoidable harm and improving safety.