To ask the Secretary of State for Health on how many occasions he has been informed by (a) strategic health authorities and (b) non-departmental public bodies of (i) patient safety concerns and (ii) management failings relating to NHS trusts in the last 12 months. (303813)

The Department does not routinely bring together individual pieces of information from strategic health authorities and non-departmental public bodies which might be classified as “patient safety concerns” and “management failings” and count them.