NHS staff told to report whether hospital mistakes are caused by Brexit

NHS staff are being told to report whether hospital mistakes have been caused by Brexit.

Staff at a London trust must now record whether a safety incident was “caused or contributed to by leaving the European Union”. All patient-related mishaps – anything from a patient falling over, to a medicine being missed – must be recorded on a national database.

But in the last few weeks, staff at Barts Health NHS Trust have been told they must stipulate whether or not Brexit was a contributing factor, according to documents seen by The Independent. The patient safety reporting system now poses the yes-or-no question: “Is there reason to believe it was caused or contributed to by the EU exit transition [Brexit]?”

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Source: The Independent, 9 November 2019