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Definition in secondary legislation

of

Notifiable incident

from

The Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014, reg 20(7)

Source

(7) In this regulation-- 'notifiable safety incident' means any unintended or unexpected incident that occurred in respect of a service user during the provision of a regulated activity that, in the reasonable opinion of a health care professional, could result in, or appears to have resulted in--
(a) the death of the service user, where the death relates directly to the incident rather than to the natural course of the service user's illness or underlying condition, or
(b) severe harm, moderate harm or prolonged psychological harm to the service user;

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