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Southport Inquiry · The Southport Inquiry Report: Phase 1 · Issued 13 April 2026 · Addressed to: NHS England, Department of Health and Social Care

Government responseDepartment of Health and Social Care: Accepted (Jul 2026)

DeliveryNo statement from Department of Health and Social Care found

Recommendation, verbatim from the inquiry

●Inquiry recommendation

The Department of Health and Social Care / NHS England should ensure that all healthcare trusts involved in the care of children and young people who are at risk of acts of violence against others have systems that ensure that:
1. Key information regarding current and historic risk information is readily visible to treating clinicians in a summarised form, where appropriate with suitable warning flags.
2. Where information comes in from other agencies that is relevant to the risk of violence to others, there are robust systems to ensure that the material is uploaded to or available on their own electronic patient records. Single points of failure leading to risk-relevant communications failing to be scanned need to be designed out.

Southport Inquiry, The Southport Inquiry Report: Phase 1 · 13 Apr 2026 Source PDF →

Published evidence summary

AI-generated evidence summary

In July 2026, HM Government accepted the recommendation, reporting that the Department of Health and Social Care and NHS England were the lead organisations and that the Single Patient Record, which forms part of the 10 Year Health Plan for England, was "currently being designed and scoped" (Home Office response, Jul 2026). The record holds no update since the government's response of July 2026 (Home Office response, Jul 2026).

Sources

AI-generated summary of the record on this page, checked by a second model and automatic checks, 26 Sep 2026.

Report-level response context

The government's response to Phase 1 (CP 1623, 2 July 2026) agreed with all 67 recommendations in one sentence, and names only 39 of them individually. Where a recommendation is not named, the response shown is the passage the response gives for the group it belongs to (the recommendations for organisations outside central government, or the recommendations to policing bodies), which is not a response to that recommendation alone; the response does not list the members of any group. The 10 recommendations for Phase 2 of the Inquiry to consider show no response: the response introduces them (paragraph 20) but answers none of them. The government accepts the recommendations that are for central government to deliver. Where a recommendation is for an organisation outside central government, the government's agreement is not that organisation's acceptance.

Government response

●Department of Health and Social Care · Accepted · 2 Jul 2026

Words of: HM Government, Government Response to Phase 1 of the Southport Inquiry (CP 1623), presented to Parliament by the Home Secretary, 2 July 2026

The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) and NHS England are the lead organisations. Progress and next steps:
- The Single Patient Record is currently being designed and scoped.
- This is part of DHSC's 10 Year Health Plan for England, which was published on 3 July 2025.

Extract from: Government Response to Phase 1 of the Southport Inquiry

Delivery

No statement on delivery from Department of Health and Social Care has been found in the sources searched. This is separate from the response above.

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