weightmans – NHS announces new system for investigating serious incidents

So often in an inquest, the family of the deceased will say that they want to know why their loved one has died and to be assured that lessons have been learnt and that it is less likely that another family will suffer the same pain and distress in the future. To date, the NHS has used the 2015 serious incident process to investigate deaths.

However, it has been announced that, over the next 12 months, the NHS will implement a new system for investigating serious incidents — that system is called the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (or PSIRF for short), and the aim is to fundamentally shift how the NHS responds to patient safety incidents.