Significant Event Audit (SEA) Template

A structured SEA template meeting CQC, GMC, and NHS contractual requirements. Includes root cause analysis and action tracking.

## Significant Event Audit Record

**Date of event:** ___ **Date of SEA meeting:** ___ **Facilitator:** ___

### 1. What Happened? (factual, chronological, no names)

### 2. Why Did It Happen? (Root Cause Analysis — use 5 Whys)

Common root causes: communication, systems/process failure, supervision gap, training need, workload

### 3. What Went Well?

### 4. What Could Have Been Done Differently?

### 5. Learning Points (be specific)

### 6. Actions

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### 7. Review

**Date reviewed:** ___ **Outcome:** ___

**Grading:**

- A: Extreme risk — immediate action

- B: High risk — priority action

- C: Moderate — planned action

- D: Minimal — learning shared