Healthcare indemnity regulation
Serious shortcomings identified in the regulation of indemnity products for healthcare professionals, leading to patient disadvantage.
4 items
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2 inquiries
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Healthcare indemnity regulation has been flagged across 1 independent accountability source:
4 inquiry recs
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Inquiry Recommendations (4)
10 — Indemnity regulation reform
Recommendation: We recommend that the Government should, as a matter of urgency, reform the current regulation of indemnity products for healthcare professionals in light of the serious shortcomings identified by this Inquiry and introduce a nationwide safety net to ensure patients …
Words of: Department of Health and Social Care, Government response to the independent inquiry report into the issues raised by former surgeon Ian Paterson, 16 December 2021
Gov response: Pending In 2018, the government launched a consultation on appropriate clinical negligence cover for regulated healthcare professionals. This sought views on whether to change legislation to ensure that all regulated healthcare professionals in the UK …
Response Unclear
In progress
13 — Independent sector provider responsibility
Recommendation: We recommend that the government addresses, as a matter of urgency, this gap in responsibility and liability.
Words of: Department of Health and Social Care, Government response to the independent inquiry report into the issues raised by former surgeon Ian Paterson, 16 December 2021
Gov response: Accept in principle The government is clear that independent sector providers must take responsibility for the quality of care provided in their facilities, regardless of how the consultants are engaged. The Medical Practitioners Assurance Framework …
Accepted in part
In progress
BRIS-100 — Mandate ethics committee approval for all new untried invasive clinical procedures
Recommendation: Before any new and hitherto untried invasive clinical procedure can be undertaken for the first time, the clinician involved should have to satisfy the relevant local research ethics committee that the procedure is justified and it is in the patient’s …
Unknown
In progress
15 — Independent sector NHS contract qualification
Recommendation: We recommend that, if the Government accepts any of the recommendations concerned, it should make arrangements to ensure that these are to be applicable across the whole of the independent sector's workload (i.e. private, insured and NHS-funded) if independent sector …
Words of: Department of Health and Social Care, Government response to the independent inquiry report into the issues raised by former surgeon Ian Paterson, 16 December 2021
Gov response: Do not accept – keep under review This recommendation, if implemented, would change the way in which independent sector providers qualify for NHS contracts. As demonstrated in our response to the other recommendations, independent sector …
Not accepted