If this is a medical emergency or safeguarding issue, ensure you have verbally escalated to the Registered Manager or Nominated Individual immediately before completing this form.
Any occurrence that is not consistent with routine care and has the potential to cause harm, or actually causes harm. This includes:
1a. Near misses: an event that had the potential to cause harm but did not, due to timely intervention or luck.
1b. Accidents / Adverse Events: an unintended event that results in actual harm.
1c. Serious Adverse Event: an adverse event that results in severe harm; death, persistent or significant disability/incapacity, hospitalisation.
Report users posting medical information on a non-clinical channel under incidents.