HC Deb 06 November 2000 vol 356 cc73-4W
Mr. Jim Cunningham

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what plans he has to introduce an early warning system of clinical error. [136694]

Ms Stuart

We agreed all recommendations set out by an expert group on learning from adverse events in the National Health Service in the report "An Organisation with a Memory". We are planning, by the end of 2001, to introduce a new mandatory reporting system to log failures, mistakes, errors and near-misses in health care and ensure that lessons learned in one part of the NHS are properly shared with the whole of the health service.