Source · Select Committees · Human Rights (Joint Committee)
Recommendation 27
27
Accepted
Monitoring compliance with this standard is important.
Recommendation
Monitoring compliance with this standard is important. Data on hospital transfers should be gathered centrally and made available to the public. (Recommendation, Paragraph 144)
Government Response Summary
The government agrees on the importance of monitoring hospital transfers and has established a Mental Health and Justice Strategic Advisory Group to scrutinise data, committing to include transfer timeliness data in annual reports when ready for publication.
Government Response
Accepted
HM Government
Accepted
We agree that monitoring and oversight of the transfer process will be crucial to the successful implementation of the statutory time-limit. A Mental Health and Justice Strategic Advisory Group has recently been established which will bring together key partners across health and justice agencies to scrutinise data and intelligence on transfer timeliness and identify and deliver solutions to address the common causes of delays. The group will provide quarterly progress updates to Ministers in both the Ministry of Justice and Department of Health and Social Care on progress. We have committed to report annually on the implementation of the Bill post Royal Assent, until such a time that the Bill is fully implemented which will include providing updates on progress and data relating to transfer timeliness, when it is ready for publication.