questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how patient safety incidents were reported before the introduction of the National Reporting and Learning System (NRLS); and what data he holds on the number of such incidents recorded in (a) each of the five years (i) before and (ii) after the introduction of the NRLS and (b) in each of the last five years.
answerText: The National Reporting and Learning System (NRLS) has been in operation since 2003 and supports NHS England to fulfil statutory duties relating to the collation of and learning from patient safety incident reports. NRLS is principally a secondary use serv...
heading: Patients: Safety