FOI release

Freedom of Information request - Defibrillators

Case reference FOI2026/00903

Received 13 August 2026

Published 30 September 2026

Request

Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, please provide: 1. The number of adverse incident reports received by the MHRA relating to defibrillators, including automated external defibrillators, manual defibrillators and monitor-defibrillators, in each of the calendar years 2023 to 2025 inclusive. Please state which field or device category was used to identify them. 2. Of those reports, the number in which the patient outcome was recorded as death. 3. Anonymised summaries of the first 10 of those reports in each year, to the level of detail routinely provided in response to similar requests, with nothing identifying the patient, the reporter or the organisation. 4. If the MHRA holds a breakdown by fault type, the number of reports attributed to battery or power failure, and the number attributed to missing or expired consumables such as defibrillation pads, then please provide this as well broken down by calendar year. If any part of this request would exceed the appropriate limit, please say which part and answer the remainder.

Response

See attached

Documents

• FOI2026_00903 (redacted).pdf (1.4 MB)
• TABLES 1 2 3 4.pdf (67.1 KB)

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