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Please provide the following information, preferably in an electronic format, for the period of the last five years. Please note, here “clinical incident” is defined as “An event that causes a loss, injury or a near miss to a patient, staff or others.”
1) The total number of medical doctors employed at your institution, broken down by professional grade (e.g., FY1, FY2, CT1, CT2, SpR, Associate Specialist, Consultant). If you cannot provide this break down, please provide the total for doctors of all grades.
2) The total number of clinical incidents reported involving medical doctors, categorized by each professional grade. If you can not provide this break down, please provide the total for doctors of all grades.
3) The number of Physician Associates (PAs) employed, and the number of clinical incidents reported involving PAs within the specified time frame.
4) The number of Advanced Clinical Practitioners (ACPs) and/or Advanced Nurse Practitioners (ANPs) employed, as well as the number of clinical incidents reported involving each of these roles.
5) The breakdown of reported clinical incidents resulting in no harm, low harm, moderate harm, severe harm, and death for each clinician category mentioned above.
The Trust received clarification from you as follows:
I need to make a clarification to the question of my previous email as the wording has caused some confusion. My apologies for this confusion.
The questions as amended are as follows and cover the period of 1st September 2018 to 1st September 2023:
1) The total number of medical doctors employed at your institution, broken down by professional grade (e.g., FY1, FY2, CT1, CT2, SpR, Associate Specialist, Consultant). If you cannot provide this break down, please provide the total for doctors of all grades.
2) The total number of clinical incidents reported where after investigation it was found that a medical doctor was responsible for the incident. If possible, please categorized by each professional grade. If you cannot provide this break down, please provide the total for doctors of all grades.
3) The number of Physician Associates (PAs) employed at your institution.
4) The number of clinical incidents where after investigation it was found that a PA was responsible for the incident within the specified time frame.
5) The number of Advanced Clinical Practitioners (ACPs) and/or Advanced Nurse Practitioners (ANPs) employed at your institution.
6) The number of clinical incidents where after investigation it was found that an ACP/ANP was responsible for the incident within the specified time frame.
7) For questions 2, 4 and 6, the breakdown of reported clinical incidents resulting in no harm, low harm, moderate harm, severe harm, and death for each clinician category mentioned above.