Health and Safety
4
Recommendations
50% accepted
Government Response
Accepted in Part (2)Awaiting Response (2)
Recommendations in This Theme
recommendation across 2 inquiries
Across 2 inquiries
Tagged Recommendations
4 total
COVID-M3.3
No Published Response
COVID-19 Inquiry
Fit-Testing Preparedness
The UK government, Scottish Government, Welsh Government and Northern Ireland Executive should work with employers, including health boards and trusts, to review the availability of qualified fit testers and take …
- The Module 3 report was published on 19 March 2026. - No formal government response to Module 3 recommendations has been published as of …
Department of Health and…
COVID-M5.5
No Published Response
COVID-19 Inquiry
Emergency Healthcare Equipment Plan
UK regulators, including the Health and Safety Executive, the Health and Safety Executive for Northern Ireland, the Office for Product Safety and Standards and the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory …
- An implementation status cannot yet be assessed. No government response or recommendation-specific delivery evidence was located by 23 July 2026, so the absence of …
Health and Safety Execut…
F87
Accepted in Part
Mid Staffs Inquiry
Ensuring the utility of a health and safety function in a clinical setting
The Health and Safety Executive is clearly not the right organisation to be focusing on healthcare. Either the Care Quality Commission should be given power to prosecute 1974 Act offences …
- The Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014 granted the Care Quality Commission powers to prosecute providers for breaches related to …
Department of Health and…
F89
Accepted in Part
Mid Staffs Inquiry
Information sharing
Reports on serious untoward incidents involving death of or serious injury to patients or employees should be shared with the Health and Safety Executive.
- The Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF), which became mandatory for NHS-funded secondary care providers in Autumn 2023, requires patient safety incident reports to …
Healthcare providers