The phrase "and failures to spot" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing instances where something was overlooked or not noticed, often in a context of analysis or evaluation.
Example: "The report highlighted several issues, including oversights in the data analysis and failures to spot critical errors."
Alternatives: "and missed opportunities" or "and inability to identify".
Some regulatory shortcomings may be chalked up to innocent mistakes and failures to spot problems.
The Confidential Enquiry into Maternal Deaths, based at the University of Oxford and partially funded by NHS England, found that women who suffer serious mental health problems during or after pregnancy are being let down by a lack of resources and failures to spot warning signs.
It also reflected "the level of mental ill health in prison" and failures to spot at-risk inmates, he said.
Mr. Dodd, who has been critical of the Fed's failures to spot problems that contributed to the financial crisis, has proposed legislation stripping the central bank of its long-standing authority to regulate banks.
Speaking during a Lords debate, the health minister, Earl Howe, said the Care Quality Commission will on Thursday name the senior managers accused of covering up its failures to spot weaknesses in the Cumbrian healthcare system.
"The penalty after two minutes and the failure to spot the offside for the second goal killed the game".
Set within a glass-enclosed space, this piercingly painful take on Ibsen has the heightened quality of a Greek drama and makes us see the play more clearly: appropriate for a play about macular degeneration and a failure to spot what's under your nose.
It was only when the US sub-prime mortgage market unravelled that regulators, policymakers and banks realised a collective failure to spot the bubble had wrecked their economies.
Comments on the site last night showed that at a London hospital vulnerable patients were being "smeared and laughed at" by staff; that a routine blood test left a patient with a lump the size of a tennis ball at Guy's hospital; in Essex a woman complained that she waited two months for contraception; and in Surrey an alleged failure to spot an ecotopic pregnancy left a woman infertile.
Larsson's influence and, as Arsenal argued fiercely, a failure to spot offside, helped to change that.
According to the Financial Times, this report ("an exhaustive and critical exposé of Whitehall's failure to spot the imminent invasion") "was presented as something quite different in early reports - simply because MPs and journalists did not have time to read and digest its full contents".
