Chief Nurse

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Recommendations

100% accepted

Government Response

Accepted (1)Accepted in Part (1)

Recommendations in This Theme

recommendation across 1 inquiry

Across 1 inquiry

Tagged Recommendations

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Chief Nurse responsible for mortuary assurance

The Chief Nurse should be made explicitly responsible for assuring the Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust Board that mortuary management is delivered in such a way that it protects …

- MTW Trust stated in February 2024 that the Chief Nurse had been assigned responsibility for mortuary services within the Trust executive structure (MTW Trust …

Maidstone and Tunbridge …

P2-20 Accepted in Part

Chief Nurse responsibility for deceased safeguarding

The remit of the Chief Nurse in NHS trusts should explicitly include executive responsibility for safeguarding the security and dignity of deceased people in NHS mortuaries and body stores.

- The government stated in December 2025 that this recommendation on assigning Chief Nurse responsibility for mortuary services was accepted in principle. Full government response …