All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Patient Safety Annual Report 2025

Summary

The All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Patient Safety was formally launched on 19 November 2024 in response to the continued scale and persistence of avoidable harm within the health and care system. Despite decades of policy attention, patient safety incidents remain a leading cause of preventable death and serious harm, highlighting the need for sustained parliamentary scrutiny and leadership. The purpose of the APPG is to help make health and social care safer by promoting best practice, transparency, accountability, and the development of safer systems across the NHS and the wider health and care sector.

The APPG provides a cross-party forum for Members of Parliament to engage directly with patients, families, clinicians, academics, regulators, and system leaders on the most pressing patient safety challenges. Through its work, the APPG seeks to ensure that patient safety remains a national priority at the heart of policy-making, and that learning from harm is translated into meaningful and lasting improvement.

This report reflects on the APPG for Patient Safety's work in 2025.