Recommendation 8

The focus of Patient Safety Commissioner and small team, and must remain, patient safety and harm prevention. If the additional responsibility of reviewing redress is placed on the Patient Safety Commissioner, the Secretary of State must ensure that the Commissioner and her office has access to proper independent expert advice and support. We urge the Secretary of State to make a statement detailing the Patient Safety Commissioner’s review of redress schemes for the medical interventions dealt with by the IMMDS review, and what additional resources will be made available to her to undertake it.