Healthcare

Duty of candour: A statutory duty of candour in healthcare should be introduced in Northern Ireland.

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 …

Duty of candour: The review of the duty of candour currently under way in England should be completed as soon as practicable.

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 …

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 …

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 …

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

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 …

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

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 …

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 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: …

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 …

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 …

The Chair and Panel recommend that the Department of Health and Social Care develops a national policy for the training and use of chaperones in the treatment of children in …

The Chair and Panel recommend that the Welsh Government develops a national policy for the training and use of chaperones in the treatment of children in healthcare services. The Chair …

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 …

Criminal liability should attach to breach of this duty and criminal liability should attach to obstruction of another in the performance of this duty.

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 …

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 …