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We’re a new organisation, and we became operational on 1st April 2017. Our purpose is to carry out investigations that improve patient safety and don’t apportion blame or liability.

In this section

  • For staff
  • What we investigate and why
  • How we decide to investigate
  • How an investigation works

Although funded through the Department of Health, and hosted by NHS Improvement we act independently. We are also independent from other regulatory bodies, like the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We’ve provided more detail on what happens before, during and after an investigation here 

Engaging with staff within organisations is an important part of our process, whether you are directly involved in a specific event, or have expertise on a particular subject matter. We feel it’s important to focus on the wider opportunities to learn for improvement.

As we build our methodology and insight over time, we hope to be able to share that with staff teams and organisations, to help support learning and raise the standard of local investigations.

We aim to be as transparent as possible in our approach so we’ve designed this section to explain more about how cases are referred, what informs our decision to investigate, our approach to investigations and where staff can access additional support.

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