Select committee: Health and Social Care Committee
Conclusion 5
Sixth Report - Follow-up on the IMMDS report and the Government’s response
Published 20 Jan 2023
Paragraph 40
Addressed to Department of Health and Social Care
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Conclusion (the committee's words)
Although the vision for what the role of Patient Safety Commissioner will achieve is publicised by the Department, no statement of specific assignments or areas of responsibility, have been published yet. As we set out in our report on the pre- appointment hearing with Dr Hughes, metrics for success and clearly defined responsibilities are needed. Only when these are clearly established can resources be adequately assigned. The risk if this is not done is that the maximum benefit to patient safety will not be fully realised. We therefore urge the Secretary of State to ensure that the Patient Safety Commissioner’s ability to carry out her important role, as her duties and responsibilities become more clearly defined, is not impeded by a lack of resource for and within her office.
From: Health and Social Care Committee, Sixth Report - Follow-up on the IMMDS report and the Government’s response (HC 689), paragraph 40, 20 January 2023
Government response
The government responded to the whole report on 24 April 2023 (deadline 20 March 2023).
Summary written by Accountability Index from the government's response. It is not the government's own words.The Government welcomes the Committee's report and sets out progress on its IMMDS commitments, but says it does "not believe it is necessary to create a new agency for redress".
- On records of devices, NHS England has begun developing a new 'Medical Device Outcome Registry', with the platform set for launch in April 2023 and work with Devolved Governments on a UK-wide approach "where appropriate to do so".
- On the register of clinicians' interests, the Government "expect[s] the implementation phase to begin in England in April 2023", with a lead-in of approximately 18 months before the CQC begins monitoring publications.
- On industry payments, it aims to launch a six-week public consultation in Spring 2023 on the potential to introduce regulations mandating reporting; any regulations would follow that consultation.
- On redress, a specification has been shared with the Patient Safety Commissioner; the work is "expected to take around four months", after which the Department "will need to consider its findings".