A new incident reporting policy was approved on 31 December 2015. You can find this on the A-Z policies section of the intranet.

How can the policy help you ?

• It provides clarity on duty of candour arrangements at both the start and end of the investigation process for orange and red incidents, an area where there has been some confusion
• It has the report templates for orange and red investigation incident reports – you can access and download these from the effective investigations page of the intranet – follow the link http://nww.cht.nhs.uk/divisions/corporate/quality-and-safety/ei/   for this and other investigation resources
• It highlights the importance of each Division having regular meetings to discuss any orange incidents (section 5.8) to confirm the grading, duty of candour lead and appoint investigators – we have had some positive feedback from the Surgery and Anaesthetics division about how useful this is
• Includes appendices on definitions of serious incidents and never events
• It provides more clarity on the grading of incidents (see below)– we have found that incidents are not always graded correctly so we have included some further description of these in the policy.

Please read the policy attached and also check you are grading your incidents appropriately in line with it!