National Patient Safety Agency Annual Report and Accounts 2011/12

This is the last full Annual Report of the National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA). It was established in May 2001 to drive forward patient safety as a new priority for the NHS. Over time new functions were added to its remit including: • National Clinical Assessment Service. • National Research Ethics Service. • The 3 National Confidential Enquiries - maternal and child health, patient outcome and death, and suicide and homicide by people with mental illness. The recommendation to abolish the NPSA followed the Governments review of arm’s-length bodies and the publication of Liberating the NHS: report of the arms length bodies review in July 2010. Therefore the Agency will close on the 9th July 2012. Many of the current functions of the Agency will be redistributed within the reorganised NHS