Public Inquiry Recommendations

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What these recommendations are about — Vale of Leven Inquiry

Key themes in this inquiry: Care home infection control · Quality and safety oversight · Inaccurate and inaccessible patient records · Patient safety governance · Disease outbreak surveillance .
Report published 2014 — 75 recommendations across this inquiry.
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R51 Accepted
Vale of Leven Inquiry (2014)
ICT functions as team
Health Boards should ensure that any Infection Control Team functions as a team, with clear lines of communication and regular meetings.
- The Scottish Government published its response to the Vale of Leven Hospital Inquiry Report on 18 June 2015, accepting all 75 recommendations and establishing …
R52 Accepted
Vale of Leven Inquiry (2014)
IPC policy adherence audits
Health Boards should ensure that adherence to infection prevention and control polices, for example C. difficile and Loose Stools Policies, is audited at least annually.
- The Scottish Government published its response to the Vale of Leven Hospital Inquiry Report on 18 June 2015, accepting all 75 recommendations and establishing …
R53 Accepted
Vale of Leven Inquiry (2014)
Surveillance systems fit for purpose
Health Boards should ensure that surveillance systems are fit for purpose, are simple to use and monitor, and provide information on potential outbreaks in real time.
- The Scottish Government published its response to the Vale of Leven Hospital Inquiry Report on 18 June 2015, accepting all 75 recommendations and establishing …
R54 Accepted
Vale of Leven Inquiry (2014)
Surveillance system training
Health Boards should ensure that the users of surveillance systems are properly trained in their use and fully aware of how to use and respond to the data available.
- The Scottish Government published its response to the Vale of Leven Hospital Inquiry Report on 18 June 2015, accepting all 75 recommendations and establishing …
R55 Accepted
Vale of Leven Inquiry (2014)
CDI reporting to CEO and Board
Health Boards should ensure that numbers and rates of CDI are reported through each level of the organisation up to the Chief Executive and the Board.
- The Scottish Government published its response to the Vale of Leven Hospital Inquiry Report on 18 June 2015, accepting all 75 recommendations and establishing …
R56 Accepted
Vale of Leven Inquiry (2014)
Regular IPC group meetings
Health Boards should ensure that infection prevention and control groups meet at regular intervals and that there is appropriate reporting upwards through the management structure.
- The Scottish Government published its response to the Vale of Leven Hospital Inquiry Report on 18 June 2015, accepting all 75 recommendations and establishing …
R57 Accepted
Vale of Leven Inquiry (2014)
IPC committee minutes reporting
Health Boards should ensure that the minutes of all meetings and reports from each infection prevention and control committee are reported to the level above in the hierarchy.
- The Scottish Government published its response to the Vale of Leven Hospital Inquiry Report on 18 June 2015, accepting all 75 recommendations and establishing …
R58 Accepted
Vale of Leven Inquiry (2014)
Lay representation on IPC committee
Health Boards should ensure that there is lay representation at Board infection prevention and control committee level in keeping with local policy on public involvement.
- The Scottish Government published its response to the Vale of Leven Hospital Inquiry Report on 18 June 2015, accepting all 75 recommendations and establishing …
R59 Accepted
Vale of Leven Inquiry (2014)
Priority attendance at IPC meetings
Health Boards should ensure that attendance by members of committees in the infection prevention and control structure is treated as a priority.
- The Scottish Government published its response to the Vale of Leven Hospital Inquiry Report on 18 June 2015, accepting all 75 recommendations and establishing …
R60 Accepted
Vale of Leven Inquiry (2014)
Cleanliness Champions implementation
Health Boards should ensure that programmes designed to improve staff knowledge of good infection prevention and control practice, such as Cleanliness Champions Programme, are implemented without undue delay.
- The Scottish Government published its response to the Vale of Leven Hospital Inquiry Report on 18 June 2015, accepting all 75 recommendations and establishing …
R61 Accepted
Vale of Leven Inquiry (2014)
Unannounced inspections with lay representation
Health Boards should ensure that unannounced inspections of clinical areas are conducted by senior infection prevention and control staff accompanied by lay representation.
- The Scottish Government published its response to the Vale of Leven Hospital Inquiry Report on 18 June 2015, accepting all 75 recommendations and establishing …
R62 Accepted
Vale of Leven Inquiry (2014)
Senior manager clinical visits
Health Boards should ensure that senior managers accompanied by IPC staff visit clinical areas at least weekly to verify that proper attention is being paid to IPC.
- The Scottish Government published its response to the Vale of Leven Hospital Inquiry Report on 18 June 2015, accepting all 75 recommendations and establishing …
R63 Accepted
Vale of Leven Inquiry (2014)
Effective CDI patient isolation
Health Boards should ensure that there is effective isolation of any patient who is suspected of suffering from CDI, and that failure to isolate is reported to senior management.
- The Scottish Government published its response to the Vale of Leven Hospital Inquiry Report on 18 June 2015, accepting all 75 recommendations and establishing …
R64 Accepted
Vale of Leven Inquiry (2014)
Cohorting only exceptional
Health Boards should ensure that cohorting is not used as a substitute for single room isolation and is only resorted to in exceptional circumstances.
- The Scottish Government published its response to the Vale of Leven Hospital Inquiry Report on 18 June 2015, accepting all 75 recommendations and establishing …
R65 Accepted
Vale of Leven Inquiry (2014)
Isolation for infectious diarrhoea
Health Boards should ensure that appropriate steps are taken to isolate patients with potentially infectious diarrhoea.
- The Scottish Government published its response to the Vale of Leven Hospital Inquiry Report on 18 June 2015, accepting all 75 recommendations and establishing …
R66 Accepted
Vale of Leven Inquiry (2014)
Healthcare environment maintenance
Health Boards should ensure that the healthcare environment does not compromise effective IPC, and that poor maintenance practices are not tolerated.
- The Scottish Government published its response to the Vale of Leven Hospital Inquiry Report on 18 June 2015, accepting all 75 recommendations and establishing …
R67 Accepted
Vale of Leven Inquiry (2014)
Link Nurse training
Health Boards should ensure that, where a local Link Nurse system is in place as part of the IPS system, the Link Nurses have specific training for that role.
- The Scottish Government published its response to the Vale of Leven Hospital Inquiry Report on 18 June 2015, accepting all 75 recommendations and establishing …
R68 Accepted
Vale of Leven Inquiry (2014)
Consultant involvement in death certificates
Health Boards should ensure that where a death occurs in hospital the consultant in charge of the patients care is involved in completion of the death certificate wherever practicable.
- The Scottish Government published its response to the Vale of Leven Hospital Inquiry Report on 18 June 2015, accepting all 75 recommendations and establishing …
R69 Accepted
Vale of Leven Inquiry (2014)
Explanation to relatives on CDI death
Health boards should ensure that if a patient dies with CDI either as a cause of death or as a condition contributing to the death, relatives are provided with a …
- The Scottish Government published its response to the Vale of Leven Hospital Inquiry Report on 18 June 2015, accepting all 75 recommendations and establishing …
R70 Accepted
Vale of Leven Inquiry (2014)
COPFS death reporting guidance review
Crown Office and the Procurator Fiscal service (COPFS) should review its guidance on the reporting of deaths regularly and at least every two years.
- The Scottish Government published its response to the Vale of Leven Hospital Inquiry Report on 18 June 2015, accepting all 75 recommendations and establishing …
R71 Accepted
Vale of Leven Inquiry (2014)
National CDI death monitoring
Scottish Government should identify a national agency to undertake routine national monitoring of deaths related to CDI.
- The Scottish Government published its response to the Vale of Leven Hospital Inquiry Report on 18 June 2015, accepting all 75 recommendations and establishing …
R72 Accepted
Vale of Leven Inquiry (2014)
Internal investigation independence
Health Boards should ensure that a non-executive Board Member or a representative from internal audit takes part in an Internal Investigation.
- The Scottish Government published its response to the Vale of Leven Hospital Inquiry Report on 18 June 2015, accepting all 75 recommendations and establishing …
R73 Accepted
Vale of Leven Inquiry (2014)
OCT report detail sufficiency
Health Boards should ensure that OCT3 reports provide sufficient details of the key factors in the spread of infection to allow a proper audit to be carried out.
- The Scottish Government published its response to the Vale of Leven Hospital Inquiry Report on 18 June 2015, accepting all 75 recommendations and establishing …
R74 Accepted
Vale of Leven Inquiry (2014)
Review of UK IPC reports
Scottish Government (whether through HPS, HIS, the HAI Task Force or otherwise) should as a matter of standard practice ensure that reports published in the UK and in other relevant …
- The Scottish Government published its response to the Vale of Leven Hospital Inquiry Report on 18 June 2015, accepting all 75 recommendations and establishing …
R75 Accepted
Vale of Leven Inquiry (2014)
Health Board review of IPC reports
Health Boards should review such reports to determine what lessons can be learned and what reviews, audits or other measures (interim or otherwise) should be put in place.
- The Scottish Government published its response to the Vale of Leven Hospital Inquiry Report on 18 June 2015, accepting all 75 recommendations and establishing …