Designate CHI as sole body for validating and revalidating NHS trusts.
Bristol Heart Inquiry · Bristol Heart Inquiry — Final Report · Issued 18 July 2001
Source — verbatim from the inquiry
●Inquiry recommendation
One body should be responsible for validating and re-validating NHS trusts and primary care trusts. This body should be CHI, suitably structured so as to give it the necessary independence and authority. Other bodies (for example the NHS Litigation Authority) which are currently concerned with setting and requiring compliance with those generic standards which should fall within the authority of CHI, should carry out their role in this respect under the authority of and answerable to CHI.
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