Healthcare

Recommendations related to healthcare

18
Recommendations
94% accepted
Government Response
Accepted (12)Accepted in Part (5)Not Accepted (1)
Recommendations in This Theme

recommendation across 4 inquiries

Across 4 inquiries
Brook House Inquiry HIA Inquiry Hyponatraemia Inquiry Infected Blood Inquiry
Tagged Recommendations
18 total
IBI-4a(i) Accepted
Infected Blood Inquiry
Duty of Candour - Northern Ireland
Duty of candour: A statutory duty of candour in healthcare should be introduced in Northern Ireland.
- The Northern Ireland Health Minister Mike Nesbitt committed to advance proposals for an organisational duty of candour, and to consider a statutory individual duty …
Northern Ireland Executi…
IBI-4a(ii) Accepted
Infected Blood Inquiry
Duty of Candour - Scotland and Wales Review
Duty of candour: The operation of the duties of candour in healthcare in Scotland and in Wales should be reviewed, as it is being in England, to assess how effective …
- The Scottish Government stated in December 2024 that the organisational duty of candour under the Health (Tobacco, Nicotine etc. and Care) (Scotland) Act 2016 …
UK Government Scottish Government
IBI-4a(iii) Accepted
Infected Blood Inquiry
Duty of Candour - England Review
Duty of candour: The review of the duty of candour currently under way in England should be completed as soon as practicable.
- The Government stated in December 2024 that the review of the statutory duty of candour in England had been completed, with findings published on …
UK Government
IBI-4c(i) Accepted
Infected Blood Inquiry
Simplify External Regulation
Regulation: That external regulation of safety in healthcare be simplified. As a first step towards this, there should be a UK wide review by the four health departments of the …
- The Government's implementation dashboard records this recommendation as: Accepted in full by the UK Government and the Welsh Government. Accepted in principle by the …
UK Government
IBI-4c(ii) Accepted
Infected Blood Inquiry
Safety Management Systems Coordination
Regulation: That the national healthcare administrations in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales explore, and if appropriate, support the development and implementation of safety management systems (“SMS”s) through SMS coordination …
- The Government's implementation dashboard records this recommendation as: Accepted in full by the UK Government and the Welsh Government. Accepted in principle by the …
UK Government
IBI-6a(i) Accepted
Infected Blood Inquiry
Hepatologist Oversight and Fibroscan Access
All patients who have contracted hepatitis via a blood transfusion or blood products should receive the following care: Those who have been diagnosed with cirrhosis at any point should receive …
- The Government's implementation dashboard records this recommendation as: Accepted in full by the UK Government, the Scottish Government and the Welsh Government. Accepted in …
UK Government
IBI-6a(ii) Accepted in Part
Infected Blood Inquiry
Specialist Hepatology Centre Access
All patients who have contracted hepatitis via a blood transfusion or blood products should receive the following care: Those who have fibrosis should receive the same care
- The Government's implementation dashboard records this recommendation as: Accepted in principle by the UK Government, the Welsh Government, the Scottish Government, and the Northern …
UK Government
IBI-6a(iii) Accepted
Infected Blood Inquiry
Uncertainty About Fibrosis
All patients who have contracted hepatitis via a blood transfusion or blood products should receive the following care: Where there is any uncertainty about whether a patient has fibrosis they …
- The Government's implementation dashboard records this recommendation as: Accepted in full by the UK Government, the Scottish Government and the Welsh Government. Accepted in …
UK Government
IBI-6a(iv) Accepted
Infected Blood Inquiry
Fibroscan for Liver Imaging
All patients who have contracted hepatitis via a blood transfusion or blood products should receive the following care: Fibroscan technology should be used for liver imaging, rather than alternatives
- The Government's implementation dashboard records this recommendation as: Accepted in full by the UK Government, the Scottish Government and the Welsh Government. Accepted in …
UK Government
IBI-6a(v) Accepted in Part
Infected Blood Inquiry
Consultant Hepatologist Access
All patients who have contracted hepatitis via a blood transfusion or blood products should receive the following care: Those who have had Hepatitis C which is attributable to infected blood …
- The Government's implementation dashboard records this recommendation as: Accepted in principle by the UK Government, the Scottish Government, the Welsh Government and the Northern …
UK Government
IBI-6a(vi) Accepted
Infected Blood Inquiry
Commissioning Hepatology Services
All patients who have contracted hepatitis via a blood transfusion or blood products should receive the following care: Those bodies responsible for commissioning hepatology services in each of the home …
- The Government's implementation dashboard records this recommendation as: Accepted in full by the UK Government, the Scottish Government and the Welsh Government. Accepted in …
UK Government
18 Accepted in Part
Brook House Inquiry
Update DSO on food and fluid refusal management and reporting
The Home Office must, as a matter of urgency, update Detention Services Order 03/2017: Care and Management of Detained Individuals Refusing Food and/or Fluid, to ensure that it deals with: …
- In March 2024, the Home Office stated that an updated DSO on food and fluid refusal had been published, linking food and fluid refusal …
Home Office
19 Not Accepted
Brook House Inquiry
Healthcare staff guidance and training on use of force incidents
The Home Office must ensure that guidance is issued to healthcare staff in immigration removal centres clarifying their role in use of force incidents. It must liaise as necessary with …
- In March 2024, the government rejected this recommendation, stating that NHS England commissions healthcare services and that it is their responsibility, alongside the Care …
Home Office
21 Accepted in Part
Brook House Inquiry
Update mental vulnerability and mental capacity DSO guidance
The Home Office must review and update Detention Services Order 04/2020: Mental Vulnerability and Immigration Detention: Non-Clinical Guidance to set out comprehensive guidance for detention and healthcare staff where there …
- In March 2024, the Home Office stated it was scoping requirements with NHS England regarding policy on detained people with mental ill health as …
Home Office
IHRD-1 Accepted
Hyponatraemia Inquiry
Statutory Duty of Candour
A statutory duty of candour should now be enacted in Northern Ireland so that: (i) Every healthcare organisation and everyone working for them must be open and honest in all …
Government response: Accepted. Last substantive update was January 2024. No recent public evidence of further progress.
Northern Ireland Executi…
IHRD-2 Accepted in Part
Hyponatraemia Inquiry
Criminal Liability for Candour Breach
Criminal liability should attach to breach of this duty and criminal liability should attach to obstruction of another in the performance of this duty.
Government response: Accepted in Part. Implementation status based on Department of Health NI Implementation Programme updates. No independent verification has been carried out.
Northern Ireland Executi…
IHRD-4 Accepted
Hyponatraemia Inquiry
Trust Awareness of Duty of Candour
Trusts should ensure that all healthcare professionals are made fully aware of the importance, meaning and implications of the duty of candour and its critical role in the provision of …
Government response: Accepted. Last substantive update was January 2024. No recent public evidence of further progress.
Northern Ireland Executi… HSC Trusts
HIA-6 Accepted
HIA Inquiry
HIA Redress Board
We consider the appropriate method of administering the compensation scheme is to create a specific Historic Institutional Abuse Redress Board for that purpose, and we so recommend. The HIA Redress …
- The Historical Institutional Abuse Redress Board was established and opened on 31 March 2020 to administer the compensation scheme (HIA Redress Board, March 2020). …
Victims and Survivors Se… Northern Ireland Executi…