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Fifth Special Report - Government Response to the Committee’s Report on Follow-up on the IMMDS report and the Government’s response

Published 24 April 2023

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The government's response

This document responds to Sixth Report - Follow-up on the IMMDS report and the Government’s response.

This is the government's response, published 24 April 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".

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