Source · Select Committees · Health and Social Care Committee
Recommendation 7
7
Reconstituting Strategic Health Authority could efficiently implement new compensation recommendations
Conclusion
The Government is creating a new Strategic Health Authority (SHA) to investigate serious incidents and improve safety in maternity care. We believe that reconstituting the SHA to investigate claims, establish the causes of harm and determine eligibility for compensation would be an efficient way for the Government to implement our recommendations. However, reconstituting the SHA should be undertaken in such a way as to create an administrative compensation body whose independence is recognised by the Courts. (Paragraph 87) An affordable system