TY - JOUR T1 - Opportunities for incident reporting. Response to: ‘The problem with incident reporting’ by Macrae <em>et al</em> JF - BMJ Quality &amp; Safety JO - BMJ Qual Saf SP - 133 LP - 134 DO - 10.1136/bmjqs-2015-004962 VL - 25 IS - 2 AU - Huw Williams AU - Alison Cooper AU - Andrew Carson-Stevens Y1 - 2016/02/01 UR - http://qualitysafety.bmj.com/content/25/2/133.abstract N2 - Macrae highlights well-discussed challenges of using safety incident reporting systems as a source of learning and improvement in healthcare.1 Our research group has analysed over 50 000 free-text reports from primary care submitted to the England and Wales National Reporting and Learning System, and developed a mixed methods approach to identify learning from these reports.2 We agree that simply aiming for a greater number of reports to remedy problems arising from under-reporting is not desirable. There is, however, an opportunity to target specific discipline or professional … ER -