Records

Effective measures should be taken to ensure that minutes of board and committee meetings are preserved.

Organisational change that alters or transfers responsibilities and accountability carries significant risk, which can be mitigated only if well managed. We recommend that an explicit protocol be drawn up setting …

Health Boards should ensure that the nurse in charge of each ward audits compliance with the duty to keep clear and contemporaneous patient records.

Health Boards should ensure that nursing staff caring for a patient with CDI keep accurate records of patient observations including temperature, pulse, respiration.

Health Boards should ensure that where Infection Control Nurses provide instructions on the management of patients those instructions are recorded in patient notes.

Health Boards should ensure that where a patient has, or is suspected of having, C.difficile diarrhoea a proper record of the patient's stools is kept.

Health Boards should ensure that any discussion between a member of nursing staff and a relative about a patient which is relevant to the patient's continuing care is recorded.

Health Boards should ensure that where a TVN is involved in caring for a patient there is a clear record in the patient notes and care plan of the instructions …

Health Boards should ensure that where a patient has a wound or pressure damage there is clear documentation of the nature of the wound or damage in accordance with best …

Health Boards should ensure that where a patient requires positional changes nursing staff clearly record this on a turning chart or equivalent.

Health Boards should ensure that where patients require fluid monitoring as part of their critical care, nursing staff complete fluid balance charts as accurately as possible.

Health Boards should ensure that clear, accurate and legible patient records are kept by doctors, that records are seen as integral to good patient care.

We recommend that the Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice invite the Chief Coroner to prepare guidance for all coroners on the appropriate retention and archiving of documents …

We recommend that the preservation of police records be reviewed to ensure that all such documents are treated as public records, held on behalf of the public, subject to the …

We recommend that relevant central government documents - particularly those of the Cabinet Office and No 10 - be transferred to the National Archives, thus enabling full public access to …

We recommend that a Distributed Permanent Archive be established across the Central Library in Sheffield, the Liverpool Record Office and the National Archives, Kew, so that all original materials are …

We recommend that, once a copy of all material has been placed on a Digital Archive, private owners - including the FA and SWFC - be encouraged to deposit original …

We recommend the appointment of an Editor-in-Chief to oversee the presentation on the Digital Archive of documents relating to the disaster, and to the role of each of the organisations …

We recommend the development of a protocol which identifies the criteria according to which material not disclosed by the Panel may be added in the future, and material currently disclosed …

We recommend that the Digital Archive be permanently accessible at the Liverpool Record Office, the Central Library, Sheffield and other appropriate local venues, so that members of the public have …

We recommend that the Digital Archive be permanently archived at the National Archives at Kew (or its successor). Regardless of any developments in relation to the Digital Archive, this permanent …

Note-taking as to the detail found on analysis and the process of comparison, though not mandatory, should become the general practice for all fingerprint comparison work.

CPErS documents should be as few in number as possible but they require amendment to ensure that those involved in detention are guided more accurately on what to record. Current …

A suitable occurrence book must be maintained at all times whenever CPErS are being held at a unit or sub-unit holding facility.