RCP Keeping patients safe – learning from mortality reviews to improve patient safety

Published

23 March 2023

Theme

Patient Safety

Sub Theme

Acute deterioration

About

A talk by Clare Wade and Professor Allen Hutchinson about the National Mortality Case Record Review (NMCRR) given at the RCP's patient safety seminar on 10 May 2017.

Further resources

RCP Mortality reviews collaborative: a review of learning

This review has been written to attempt to
summarise the issues that are seen in multiple
reports both in time and across the boundaries of
patient groups.

Read: Mortality reviews collaborative: a review of learning

Learning from deaths in the NHS

Learning from deaths of people in their care can help providers improve the quality of the care they provide to patients and their families, and identify where they could do more

Read: Resources on learning from deaths in the NHS