BBC Radio 4 You & Yours: Learning from Coroners' Prevention of Future Deaths reports (26 February 2020)

Summary

Patient Safety Learning's Chief Executive Helen Hughes, alongside Professor Alison Leary and Professor Sara Ryan, talk on BBC Radio 4 about coroner reports that are specifically designed to help prevent future deaths and question whether it's working in practice.

Health researchers warn that lives are at risk because warnings from Coroners are not being acted upon. Analysis of more than 1000 Prevention of Future Death reports has identified five themes that come up time and time again. Patient Safety Learning has written to the Chief Coroner because of their concerns about this. Sara Ryan is a mother who believes lessons from her son's death have not been learned.