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Recommendations: Infected Blood Inquiry

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Recommendations issued by UK statutory and non-statutory inquiries, with their tracked government response and supporting evidence.

Recommendations

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Code	Recommendation	Inquiry	Response
AC-1a	Open Registration The scheme be opened to registration to everyone who may be eligible.	Infected Blood Inquiry (2025)	Accepted
AC-1b	Registration and Application Forms There be forms (devised by IBCA) for people to register and apply for a core award and the supplementary awards with/without the …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2025)	Accepted
AC-1c	Legal Support Signposting IBCA include a prominent reference to the availability of legal support paid by IBCA on all registration and application forms and in …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2025)	Accepted
AC-1d	Three-Cohort Prioritisation When IBCA opens up the service beyond people infected and registered with the support schemes, IBCA: (i) update the sequencing to three …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2025)	Accepted
AC-1e	Oral Representations at Review IBCA consider making provision, either generally or in specific cases, for oral representations to be made where a decision is reviewed internally, …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2025)	Accepted
AC-1f	Written Reasons for Decisions Written reasons for the original decision must be provided so that the review process can operate fairly.	Infected Blood Inquiry (2025)	Accepted
AC-2a	Publish Guidance and Board Minutes IBCA should publish: guidance, advice or instructions to claim managers; work undertaken by IBCA with the Cabinet Office's policy team to ensure …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2025)	Accepted
AC-2b	Share Clinical Assessor Advice In respect of any case in which the advice of a clinical assessor has been given, in relation to the person concerned …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2025)	Accepted
AC-2c	Community Advisory Body A formal role be given within IBCA for an advisory body consisting of people infected and affected, covering a range of experience …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2025)	Accepted
AC-2d	Structured Response to Community Input To build confidence that IBCA is actively listening to people infected and affected, IBCA adopt more of a structured response to contributions …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2025)	Accepted
IBI-A-2e	Transparency of Scheme Design The Government and IBCA establish a mechanism by which individuals or organisations may raise concerns which arise about any aspect of the …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2025)	Accepted
IBI-A-3a	HIV Eligibility Start Date An amendment to the Regulations be made as soon as possible to remove the reference to 1 January 1982 from Regulation 3.	Infected Blood Inquiry (2025)	Accepted
IBI-A-4c	Effective Treatment - Earnings Floor For the calculation of Financial Loss awards for Hepatitis B, people born after 1953 should be treated like those born in or …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2025)	Accepted
IBI-A-4d	Deeming of Severity Bands Where the level of severity of a person's infection at Level 3 or more has been established to IBCA's satisfaction in relation …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2025)	Accepted
IBI-A-4e	Evidence of Diagnosis Date Regulation 14(2)(c) be amended to remove the requirement for evidence of the date of diagnosis of Hepatitis B or C. An appropriate …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2025)	Accepted
IBI-A-8b	Affected Estates The Regulations be amended such that where someone who would be an eligible affected person dies between 21 May 2024 and 31 …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2025)	Accepted
IBI-A-9a	Bereaved Partner Support Scheme The IBSS cut-off date of 31 March 2025 be reviewed, that the scheme should as soon as possible reinstate support payments to …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2025)	Accepted
IBI-1	Compensation Scheme My principal recommendation remains that a compensation scheme should be set up now	Infected Blood Inquiry (2024)	Accepted
IBI-2a	UK and Devolved Memorials A permanent memorial be established in the UK and consideration be given to memorials in each of Northern Ireland, Wales and Scotland. …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2024)	Accepted
IBI-2b	Treloar's School Memorial A memorial be established at public expense, dedicated specifically to the children infected at Treloar’s school. The memorial should be such as …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2024)	Accepted
IBI-2c	Community Support Events There should be at least three events, approximately six months apart, drawing together those infected and affected, the nature and timing of …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2024)	Accepted
IBI-3a	Medical Education - Curriculum The General Medical Council, and NHS Education for Scotland, Health Education and Improvement Wales, Northern Ireland Medical and Dental Training Agency and …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2024)	Accepted
IBI-3b	Medical Education - Training Materials They should look favourably upon putting together a package of training materials, with excerpts from oral and written testimony, to underpin what …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2024)	Accepted
IBI-3c	Inquiry Website Preservation The Inquiry website is maintained online	Infected Blood Inquiry (2024)	Accepted
IBI-4a(i)	Duty of Candour - Northern Ireland Duty of candour: A statutory duty of candour in healthcare should be introduced in Northern Ireland.	Infected Blood Inquiry (2024)	Accepted
IBI-4a(ii)	Duty of Candour - Scotland and Wales Review Duty of candour: The operation of the duties of candour in healthcare in Scotland and in Wales should be reviewed, as it …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2024)	Accepted
IBI-4a(iii)	Duty of Candour - England Review Duty of candour: The review of the duty of candour currently under way in England should be completed as soon as practicable.	Infected Blood Inquiry (2024)	Accepted
IBI-4c(i)	Simplify External Regulation Regulation: That external regulation of safety in healthcare be simplified. As a first step towards this, there should be a UK wide …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2024)	Accepted
IBI-4c(ii)	Safety Management Systems Coordination Regulation: That the national healthcare administrations in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales explore, and if appropriate, support the development and implementation …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2024)	Accepted
IBI-4d	Patient Records Audit Patient Records: Before the end of 2027 there should be a formal audit, publicly reported, of the extent of success of digitisation …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2024)	Accepted
IBI-4e	Cross-Administration Patient Safety Coordination Coordination of patient records with devolved governments: Consideration should be given by the national healthcare administrations in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2024)	Accepted
IBI-6a(i)	Hepatologist Oversight and Fibroscan Access All patients who have contracted hepatitis via a blood transfusion or blood products should receive the following care: Those who have been …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2024)	Accepted
IBI-6a(iii)	Uncertainty About Fibrosis All patients who have contracted hepatitis via a blood transfusion or blood products should receive the following care: Where there is any …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2024)	Accepted
IBI-6a(iv)	Fibroscan for Liver Imaging All patients who have contracted hepatitis via a blood transfusion or blood products should receive the following care: Fibroscan technology should be …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2024)	Accepted
IBI-6a(vi)	Commissioning Hepatology Services All patients who have contracted hepatitis via a blood transfusion or blood products should receive the following care: Those bodies responsible for …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2024)	Accepted
IBI-7a(ii)	Tranexamic Acid - Scotland, Wales and NI In Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland offering the use of tranexamic acid should be considered a treatment of preference in respect of …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2024)	Accepted
IBI-7a(iii)	Transfusion Performance Benchmarking Consideration be given to standardising and benchmarking transfusion performance between hospitals in order to deliver better patient blood management	Infected Blood Inquiry (2024)	Accepted
IBI-7b	Transfusion 2024 Review Progress Review of progress towards the Transfusion 2024 recommendations: Progress in implementation of the Transfusion 2024 recommendations be reviewed, and next steps be …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2024)	Accepted
IBI-7f(i)	Transfusion Outcome Framework Establishing the outcome of every transfusion: That a framework be established for recording outcomes for recipients of blood components. That those records …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2024)	Accepted
IBI-7f(ii)	NHSBT Transfusion Outcome Funding Establishing the outcome of every transfusion: To the extent that the funding for digital transformation does not already cover the setting up …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2024)	Accepted
IBI-8a	Pre-1996 Transfusion Testing When doctors become aware that a patient has had a blood transfusion prior to 1996, that patient should be offered a blood …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2024)	Accepted
IBI-8b	New Patient Registration Screening As a matter of routine, new patients registering at a practice should be asked if they have had such a transfusion.	Infected Blood Inquiry (2024)	Accepted
IBI-9a	Haemophilia Peer Review That peer review of haemophilia care should continue to occur as presently practised, with any necessary support being provided by NHS Trusts …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2024)	Accepted
IBI-9b	Trust/Board Action on Peer Reviews That NHS Trusts and Health Boards should be required to deliberate on peer review findings and give favourable consideration to implementing the …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2024)	Accepted
IBI-9c	Five-Year Peer Review Cycle A peer review of each centre should take place not less than once every five years.	Infected Blood Inquiry (2024)	Accepted
IBI-9d	Haemophilia Centre Resources The necessary administrative and clinical resources should be provided by hospital trusts and boards, integrated care boards, and service commissioners to facilitate …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2024)	Accepted
IBI-9e	Recombinant Products Over Plasma-Derived Recombinant coagulation factor products should be offered in place of plasma-derived ones where clinically appropriate. Service commissioners should ensure that such treatment …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2024)	Accepted
IBI-9f	National Haemophilia Database Support That the National Haemophilia Database, run by the UKHCDO, merits the support of additional central funding.	Infected Blood Inquiry (2024)	Accepted
IBI-10a(i)	Patient Satisfaction in Clinical Audits A clinical audit should as a matter of routine include measures of patient satisfaction or concern, and these should be reported to …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2024)	Accepted
IBI-10a(ii)	Charity Funding for Patient Advocacy That the following charities receive funding specifically for patient advocacy: the UK Haemophilia Society; the Hepatitis C Trust; Haemophilia Scotland; the Scottish …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2024)	Accepted

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