Source · Select Committees · Health and Social Care Committee
Recommendation 9
9
Accepted
Committee seeks Minister's statement on redress review and Redress Agency timeline
Conclusion
We would welcome a statement from the Minister on the review of redress and a possible Redress Agency, with more details on what such a review would include and seek to achieve, and timeline for completion. (Paragraph 60) Follow-up on the IMMDS report and the Government’s response 21
Government Response Summary
The government has provided a specification for redress work to the Patient Safety Commissioner, which will focus on affected individuals' views and the case for redress, expected to take four months with a report to be published. However, the government explicitly rejected the creation of a new redress agency.
Government Response
Accepted
HM Government
Accepted
. Our sympathies remain with all those harmed by medical interventions, including those harmed by sodium valproate and pelvic mesh. A specification of the redress work has been shared with the Patient Safety Commissioner. valproate and pelvic mesh; two of the three interventions covered in the IMMDS review. It is intended to focus on the views of those affected, improving the understanding of how many people have been affected and how, the case for redress and what form it could take. The work is expected to take around four months and the Patient Safety Commissioner will publish a report of the findings. Following receipt of this report, the Department will need to consider its findings. The Department has agreed additional resources with the Patient Safety Commissioner to support this work. The Department set out its position on introducing a redress agency in its response to the IMMDS review report in July 2021. In summary, we do not believe it is necessary to create a new agency for redress as it is already possible for the Government and others to provide redress for specific issues where that is considered necessary.