Patients
5
Recommendations
100% accepted
Government Response
Accepted (5)
Recommendations in This Theme
recommendation across 3 inquiries
Across 3 inquiries
Tagged Recommendations
5 total
SHI-1
Accepted
Scottish Hospitals Inquiry
Communication strategy for patients and families
Health boards must ensure that in the event of any adverse situation that could affect the wellbeing of patients and their families, there is a communication strategy in place to …
- On 13 March 2025, Cabinet Secretary Neil Gray MSP accepted all 11 recommendations in a parliamentary statement (Scottish Government Parliamentary Statement, 13 March 2025). …
Scottish Government
P1-17
Accepted
Fuller Inquiry
Deceased treated with same dignity as patients
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust must treat the deceased with the same due regard to dignity and safeguarding as it does its other patients.
- MTW Trust stated in February 2024 that it had reinforced the principle that the deceased must be treated with the same dignity and respect …
Maidstone and Tunbridge …
2
Accepted
Paterson Inquiry
Patient-focused correspondence
We recommend that it should be standard practice that consultants in both the NHS and the independent sector should write to patients, outlining their condition and treatment, in simple language, …
- The Academy of Medical Royal Colleges (AoMRC) updated its 'Please write to me' guidance in 2018, stipulating that outpatient letters should be written directly …
Department of Health and…
7
Accepted
Paterson Inquiry
UHB patient recall
We recommend that the University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust board should check that all patients of Paterson have been recalled, and to communicate with any who have not been …
- University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust stated that all known living patients of Ian Paterson had been contacted by August 2020 (Implementation update to …
University Hospitals Bir…
8
Accepted
Paterson Inquiry
Spire patient recall
We recommend that Spire should check that all patients of Ian Paterson have been recalled, and to communicate with any who have not been seen, and that they should check …
- Spire Healthcare stated in April 2025 that it had contacted all known living patients of Ian Paterson and completed a comprehensive review (Implementation update …
Spire Healthcare