Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many never events have been recorded in hospitals in England in the last five years.

In the last five years there have been a total of 1,881 Never Events recorded in hospitals in England. The table below provides the specific annual figures of this total.

Never Events cannot be compared year on year as the number of Never Events contained within the Never Events list and definitions of the individual Never Events have been modified each year, so direct comparison is not appropriate.

Data for 2015/16 is still provisional and is yet to be confirmed in the annual data summary.