Create an incident

Record a clinical or security incident, fill in its details and link it to the hazard or risk it relates to.

Quick summary

• New Incident opens a dialog to start an incident; the Incident Details sheet then holds its record.
• What you tick under Clinical Incident and Data Security Incident decides where an incident appears: Clinical Safety, Privacy & Security or both.
• Fill in Outcomes and Lessons Learned before closing an incident: assessors read them first.

Incidents also arrive by import from incident.io and by staff and Trust Centre reports.

Create the incident

1. Open the incident log

   Click Clinical Safety → Incidents or Privacy & Security → Incidents, then click New Incident.

2. Fill in the dialog

   Fill in the Add New Incident dialog.

   

   The Add New Incident dialog. Scroll down for Impacted Product(s), the Clinical Incident and Data Security Incident ticks, and Additional Information.

3. Choose the category and create it

   Tick Clinical Incident, Data Security Incident or both, to decide where the incident appears. Both start unticked, whichever log you came from. Then click New Incident to open the Incident Details sheet.

Fields in the dialog

Field	What to enter
Incident ID	Assuric suggests the next ID, such as INC-018, which you can change if needed.
Report anonymously	Tick it to leave out who reported it.
Reporting on behalf of a 3rd party	Tick it if someone outside your team told you about it, then say who in Third Party Details.
Cause(s)	Pick an existing cause, or click Create New: your common causes show up in the Incident Causes tile.
Severity	Hover over a level, such as Minor or Critical, to read what it means, or click Create New to add your own.

Complete the record

The Incident Details sheet has 5 sections: Incident Information, Clinical Details, Data Security Details, Investigation & Response and Additional Information. To reopen it later, click … on the incident’s row, then Edit.

The top of the Incident Details sheet: Incident Information, with the Clinical Incident and Data Security Incident ticks below it.

Fill in the sections that apply. Root Cause Analysis, Outcomes and Lessons Learned go in Investigation & Response, and assessors read Outcomes and Lessons Learned first, so complete them before closing.

Update Status as the incident moves on (see Statuses).

Link the incident

If the hazard isn’t in your hazard log yet, create it first.

• Clinical incident: in Clinical Details, click Link or add hazards under Hazard Log and pick the hazard.
• Security incident: in Data Security Details, click Link or add risks under Risk Register and pick the risk.

To change the links later, click Edit linked Hazards or Edit linked Risks.

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