The systematic analysis of patient safety incident reports, and the subsequent drawing of lessons for local and global learning is one of the major challenges of incident reporting systems. WHO aims to address this challenge and explore mechanisms to facilitate learning and sharing of lessons from patient safety incident reports. To this end, WHO is organizing an expert consultation aiming to: (1) review experiences, highlighting the gaps and solutions, in the analysis and use of national incident reporting systems; (2) explore the needs for a common template for patient safety incident reporting systems to facilitate learning and exchange across institutions and geographical boundaries; (3) review methodologies for achieving such a common template, including the validation of the Conceptual Framework of the International Classification of Patient Safety against Japan Incident Reports through Natural Language Processing; and (4) explore synergies with current developments in ICD. This consultation will expectedly set directions and recommendations for further work in this area. Participants at the meeting are specialists in patient safety incident reporting systems, ICD and classifications, as well as medical informatics, and Natural Language Processing and related methodologies.