Written question WQ92966
- Asked by
- Andrew RT DaviesConservative
- To be answered by
- Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- Due
- Answered
- Time to answer
- 9 days
Question
How is the Welsh Government working with health boards in Wales to bring down the number of preventable deaths in hospitals?
Answer
Answered by Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
All health boards are expected to apply the highest possible quality and patient safety standards to prevent harm or death to patients. All deaths of patients in hospitals are scrutinised by the national medical examiner service. If it is felt a death may have been caused or contributed to by the actions of the health board, then this must be reported and investigated in line with the NHS Wales nationally reportable incident process and health boards must ensure that lessons are learned.
Health boards should also be making use of other data such as the Risk Adjusted Mortality Index (RAMI) to identify possible trends and using this for service improvement.