Our reports
NCISH annual, UK, national and themed reports provide data and analysis on over 20 years of research on patient safety across the UK. Explore the reports below.
Latest reports
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Themed reports
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- Healthy services and safer patients: links between patient suicide and features of mental health care providers
Plus: Video: Report background – Video: Key findings – Publication - Suicide in primary care in England: 2002-2011
- Patient suicide: the impact of service changes. A UK wide study
Plus: Publication - Quality of risk assessment prior to suicide and homicide: a pilot study
- Independent homicide investigations
- Independent investigations after homicide by people receiving mental health care
- Filicide: a literature review
Annual and national reports
- Making Mental Health Care Safer: Annual Report and 20-Year Review
Plus: Infographic – Video: Key findings – Video: Patient safety – Information sheet for service users - Annual Report 2015: England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales
Plus: Infographic – Video: Key findings – suicide in men – Video: Key findings – Opiate overdose – Information sheet for service users - Annual Report 2014: England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales
- Annual Report 2013: England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales
- Annual Report 2012: England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland
- Annual Report 2011: England, Wales, and Scotland
- Suicide and Homicide in Northern Ireland (2011)
- Annual Report 2010: England and Wales
- Annual Report 2009: England and Wales
- Lessons for mental health care in Scotland (2008)
- Avoidable Deaths: Five year report of the National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Homicide by People with Mental Illness (2006)
- Safety First: Five year report of the National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Homicide by People with Mental Illness (2001)
- Safer Services (1999)