Guidance

NCSP: incidents reporting policy

Policy to report incidents in the course of chlamydia screening to the National Chlamydia Screening Programme (NCSP).

• From: Public Health England
• Published: 1 January 2003
• Last updated: 24 June 2021 — See all updates

Documents

NCSP incident reporting policy: January 2020

Ref: PHE publications gateway number: GW-1039

PDF, 440 KB, 17 pages

Details

Changes to the National Chlamydia Screening Programme were announced in June 2021. The content on this page is currently being updated to reflect these changes.

This policy describes the process for reporting incidents that may occur across the country during delivery of the screening programme.

Reporting incidents is a part of the National Chlamydia Screening Programme (NCSP) quality assurance framework, to learn from incidents and provide better service in future.

An incident is an event or circumstance that could have resulted, or did result, in unnecessary damage, loss or harm such as physical or mental injury to a patient, staff, visitors or members of the public.

This policy replaces the previous policy from June 2017.

See lessons learned from incidents reported to the NCSP.

Published 1 January 2003
Last updated 24 June 2021 + show all updates

1. 24 June 2021

   Added statement about the changes to the National Chlamydia Screening Programme.

2. 30 January 2020

   Updated with NCSP incident reporting policy, January 2020.

3. 1 January 2003

   First published.