PATIENT SAFETY WATCH

Registered charity 1185650 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Patient Safety Watch will promote, preserve and protect the health of the public by carrying out and commissioning research into patient safety issues. We will focus on the nature of preventable harm and how to reduce it in healthcare systems around the world, focusing initially on the NHS in England.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE TO PROMOTE, PRESERVE AND PROTECT THE HEALTH OF THE PUBLIC, IN PARTICULAR BY CARRYING OUT RESEARCH, MAKING THE USEFUL RESULTS PUBLICLY AVAILABLE AND TO PROVIDE AND DISSEMINATE INFORMATION AND ADVICE ON SAFETY AND STANDARDS IN PATIENT CARE TO POLICY MAKERS, SERVICE PROVIDERS AND PATIENTS, IN PARTICULAR ON HOW TO PREVENT ERROR AND HARM IN HEALTHCARE.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Barnet, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net income of £5,000 for the year ended 31 January 2025, with total income of £159,544 and total expenditure of £154,544. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves were maintained at £20,568, which the trustees consider sufficient to meet their policy of holding three months' expenditure. The independent examiner confirmed that no matters came to their attention giving cause to believe the financial statements were materially non-compliant.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 31/01/2024 (received 06/12/2024, 6 days after the 30/11/2024 due date); year ending 31/01/2023 (received 05/12/2023, 5 days after the 30/11/2023 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

• David Grunberg · trustee of 2 other charities
• James Roger Titcombe
• Jeremy Richard Streynsham Hunt
• Michael Anthony Patrick Durkin

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with PATIENT SAFETY LEARNING.

• PATIENT SAFETY LEARNING income £849k
• HEALTHWATCH CITY OF LONDON income £98k
• HEALTHWATCH WAKEFIELD income £494k
• HEALTHWATCH HILLINGDON income £232k
• STOPWATCH income £168k
• HEALTHWATCH NORTH TYNESIDE income £244k

Side by side with its peers

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