What kind of event do you want to record?

The mandatory use of ‘Outcome’ and ‘Risk’ event types has been suspended. This means some organisations may choose not to use these event types. Read more about this on the FutureNHS platform.

Incident - Something unexpected or unintended has happened, or failed to happen, that could have or did lead to patient harm

What does this mean?

Patient safety incidents, including “near misses”. Select this option if you know that something did not go as it should have done and as a direct result the incident could have or did hurt one or more patients.

Outcome - A poor outcome routinely reported locally where it is not yet known whether or not the outcome was caused by a patient safety incident

What does this mean?

Unexpected poor outcomes. Select this option for any event that requires further fact-finding to establish if a patient safety incident could have contributed, but you do not yet know either way.

Risk - A risk to patient safety in the future, though no patients have yet been affected

What does this mean?

Risks to patient safety. Select this option to record problems that you think may arise in the future, but have not yet happened, or yet posed a direct risk to any patients in particular.

Good Care - An example of good care that can be learned from

What does this mean?

Positive learning opportunities. Select this option if you want to share experiences or learning from things that have gone well whilst delivering care.