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The Patient Safety Incident Response Framework will replace the Serious Incident Framework on 1 April 2024. This means that organisations operating under the NHS Standard Contract must apply PSIRF principles in their approach to learning from safety events.

As safety incidents within screening programmes may have implications wider than individual services, it is important that potential screening incidents continue to be reported to the Screening QA Service and local public health commissioning teams, using the SIAF

The Managing Screening guidance (2015) is being updated to reflect the PSIRF and the new version will be published here.

If you are unsure who to contact please contact the National QA service using the email address: england.nationalqa@nhs.net

Guidance to explain the incident management procedures for NHS screening programme providers and commissioners and provide a form for notifying incidents to the Screening Quality Assurance Service (SQAS).

Read this guidance alongside NHS Englands Serious Incident Framework.