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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

28 of 1,814

Code	Recommendation	Inquiry	Response
IBI-A-4a	Interferon Treatment Impacts People infected with Hepatitis B or C who have received a course of treatment with or based on interferon should be recognised …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2025)	Accepted in Part
IBI-A-4b	Special Category Mechanism The Government reconsider whether to maintain its rejection in February 2025 of the recommendations of Sir Robert Francis KC and advice from …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2025)	Accepted in Part
IBI-A-5a	Severe Psychological Harm The approach of the Infected Blood Psychology Service is adopted so that both a diagnosis made by a psychiatric professional and a …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2025)	Accepted in Part
IBI-A-6a	Financial Loss and Care "x" be removed from the equation set out in Regulation 7.	Infected Blood Inquiry (2025)	Accepted in Part
IBI-A-6b	Exceptional Loss Evidence The Cabinet Office consult on whether the evidential requirements for exceptional reduced earnings are likely to prove a barrier to people who …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2025)	Accepted in Part
IBI-A-7a	Unethical Research Award Where there is evidence that an individual was the victim of unethical research practices IBCA should be authorised to make an unethical …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2025)	Accepted in Part
IBI-A-7b	Wider Definition of Unethical Research When considering the evidence IBCA applies the wider definition of research explained in the Infected Blood Inquiry Additional Report chapter on Unethical …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2025)	Accepted in Part
IBI-A-8a	Supplementary Route for Affected Persons The Minister give consideration to there being a supplementary route for people affected. This could include opening the supplemental award for severe …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2025)	Accepted in Part
IBI-4a(iv)	Individual Duty of Candour for Leaders Statutory duty of candour: The statutory duties of candour in England, Scotland, Wales (and Northern Ireland, when introduced) should be extended to …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2024)	Accepted in Part
IBI-4a(v)	Leadership Accountability for Safety Statutory duty of candour: Individuals in leadership positions should be required by the terms of their appointment and by secondary legislation to …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2024)	Accepted in Part
IBI-4b	Organisational Culture Change Cultural Change: That a culture of defensiveness, lack of openness, failure to be forthcoming, and being dismissive of concerns about patient safety …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2024)	Accepted in Part
IBI-5a	Civil Service Statutory Duty of Candour The Government should reconsider whether, in the light of the facts revealed by this Inquiry, it is sufficient to continue to rely …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2024)	Accepted in Part
IBI-5b	Monitoring Non-Statutory Duties If, on review, the Government considers that it is sufficient to rely on the current non-statutory duties in the Civil Service Code, …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2024)	Accepted in Part
IBI-5c	Ministerial Duty of Candour The Government should consider the extent to which Ministers should be subject to a duty beyond their current duty to Parliament under …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2024)	Accepted in Part
IBI-6a(ii)	Specialist Hepatology Centre Access All patients who have contracted hepatitis via a blood transfusion or blood products should receive the following care: Those who have fibrosis …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2024)	Accepted in Part
IBI-6a(v)	Consultant Hepatologist Access All patients who have contracted hepatitis via a blood transfusion or blood products should receive the following care: Those who have had …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2024)	Accepted in Part
IBI-7a(i)	Transfusion Committees and Tranexamic Acid - England In England, Hospital Transfusion Committees and transfusion practitioners take steps to ensure that consideration of tranexamic acid be on every hospital surgical …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2024)	Accepted in Part
IBI-7c	Transfusion Laboratory Staffing Transfusion laboratories: Transfusion laboratories should be staffed (and resourced) adequately to meet the requirements of their functions.	Infected Blood Inquiry (2024)	Accepted in Part
IBI-7d	Training in Transfusion Medicine Training in Transfusion Medicine: That those bodies concerned with undergraduate and postgraduate training across the UK of those people who are, or …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2024)	Accepted in Part
IBI-7e	Implementing SHOT Reports Implementing SHOT reports: That all NHS organisations across the UK have a mechanism in place for implementing recommendations of Serious Hazard of …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2024)	Accepted in Part
IBI-7f(iii)	Blood Tracking Systems Funding Establishing the outcome of every transfusion: That funding for the provision of enhanced electronic clinical systems in relation to blood transfusion be …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2024)	Accepted in Part
IBI-10a(iv)	Thalassaemia Society Support Particular consideration be given, together with the UK Thalassaemia Society and the Sickle Cell Society, to how the needs of patients with …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2024)	Accepted in Part
IBI-11a	Ministerial Power to Call Inquiries That a minister should retain the power to call an inquiry as the minister sees fit, in accordance with the Inquiries Act …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2024)	Accepted in Part
IBI-11b	Parliamentary Referral to PACAC If there is sufficient support from within Parliament for there to be an inquiry, the question whether there should be one should …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2024)	Accepted in Part
IBI-11c	PACAC Recommendation Power If it appears to PACAC that there is sufficient concern to justify a public inquiry, either because what happened and why has …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2024)	Accepted in Part
IBI-11d	Ministerial Reasons for Disagreement If the minister disagrees with the recommendation, they must set out in detail and publish reasons for this disagreement which are sufficient …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2024)	Accepted in Part
IBI-12d	PACAC Oversight of Implementation The Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee (“PACAC”) should review both the progress towards responding to the Inquiry’s recommendations and, to the …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2024)	Accepted in Part
IBI-12e	PACAC Role for Future Inquiries PACAC should accept the role in respect of any future statutory inquiry of reviewing the government’s timetable for consideration of recommendations, and …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2024)	Accepted in Part