Learning from Deaths Policy

Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust believes that concentrating attention on the factors that cause deaths will impact positively on all persons who use services, reducing complications, length of stay and readmission rates through improving pathways of care, reducing variability of care delivery, and early recognition and escalation of concerns.

Publication date:
31 January 2021
Date range:
January 2021- September 2022

0. Tracking

Document Reference No: KMPT.CliG.156.03
Replacing document:  KMPT.CliG.156.02
Target audience: All clinical staff, Patient Safety staff, Trust Board
Author: Head of Patient Safety
Group responsible for developing document: Trust Wide Patient Safety and Mortality Group
Status: Approved

1. Introduction
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