Data

The UK government, working with the devolved administrations, should establish mechanisms for the timely collection, analysis, secure sharing and use of reliable data for informing emergency responses, in advance of …

The response to a future whole-system civil emergency should be coordinated via central taskforces in each of the UK, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, with responsibility for the commissioning and …

The Inquiry recommends a programme of work by the Trust to: • Consolidate governance improvements into a clear, prioritised programme overseen by the Board. This will ensure that the large …

To ensure meaningful interpretation of these trends, all HSCTs should adopt statistical process control (SPC) charts, as developed by Walter Shewhart in 1939. SPC charts use calculated upper and lower …

Data on how often deceased patients are conveyed in ambulances, and the reasons for this, should be routinely collected and reported to NHS England, and monitored to assess risk.

That the National Haemophilia Database, run by the UKHCDO, merits the support of additional central funding.

We recommend that there should be a single repository of the whole practice of consultants across England, setting out their practising privileges and other critical consultant performance data – for …

The Health Protection Agency and its successor, should coordinate the collection, analysis and publication of information on each provider's performance in relation to healthcare associated infections, working with the Health …

It is important that the appropriate steps are taken to enable properly anonymised data to be used for managerial and regulatory purposes.

The Information Centre should be tasked with the independent collection, analysis, publication and oversight of healthcare information in England, or, with the agreement of the devolved governments, the United Kingdom. …

The Information Centre, in consultation with the Department of Health, the NHS Commissioning Board and the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman, should develop a means of publishing more detailed breakdowns …

The standards applied to statistical information about serious untoward incidents should be the same as for any other healthcare information and in particular the principles around transparency and accessibility. It …

Resources must be allocated to and by provider organisations to enable the relevant data to be collected and forwarded to the relevant central registry.

The Board should have both the power and a duty to ensure that all breaches of the standards code that it considers are recorded as such and that proper data …