An adverse incident is an event that causes, or has the potential to cause, unexpected or unwanted effects involving the health and safety of patients, users and other persons such as staff, contractors and visitors.
SMTL is funded by the Welsh Government to provide testing and technical services on medical devices (mainly disposable devices) for the NHS in Wales. As part of this service, SMTL acts as the reporting centre for the Welsh NHS, as recognised in the Welsh NHS notice MDA/2004/054 (Wales).