Prevention of Future Death Reports
A Prevention of Future Death (PFD) report is written by a Coroner after an inquest, especially where the Coroner has heard evidence that further avoidable deaths could happen if preventative action is not taken123. The report is sent to the person or authority who have the power to make the changes that are suggested. They have to respond to these within 56 days showing how they have made changes according to the Coroner’s recommendations, or how they intend to make them.
This section contains links to bulk downloads of PFD reports and will have a searchable archive of them to make it easier than the government site.
The original site for these reports, for England and Wales is here.
The closest equivalent in Scotland are fatal accident determinations here.
Version one of the PFD data is England and Wales only and there are a lot of PDF reports that will need to be extracted to give you the recommendations, although the higher level data is captured.
A really good site that analyses some of the themes is here, although it is a pay site.
Downloads and an embedded google sheet are provided below.
A bulk download of PFD reports is here.
A bulk download of replies to PFDs is here.