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Recommendations: Mid Staffs 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
F151	Complaints to MPs MPs are advised to consider adopting some simple system for identifying trends in the complaints and information they received from constituents. They …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted in Part
F152	Medical training Any organisation which in the course of a review, inspection or other performance of its duties, identifies concerns potentially relevant to the …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted
F153	Medical training The Secretary of State should by statutory instrument specify all medical education and training regulators as relevant bodies for the purpose of …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted in Part
F154	Medical training The Care Quality Commission and Monitor should develop practices and procedures with training regulators and bodies responsible for the commissioning and oversight …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted
F155	Medical training The General Medical Council should set out a standard requirement for routine visits to each local education provider, and programme in accordance …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted
F156	Medical training The system for approving and accrediting training placement providers and programmes should be configured to apply the principles set out above.	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted
F157	Matters to be reported to the General Medical Council The General Medical Council should set out a clear statement of what matters; deaneries are required to report to the General Medical …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted
F158	Training and training establishments as a source of safety information The General Medical Council should amend its standards for undergraduate medical education to include a requirement that providers actively seek feedback from …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted
F159	Training and training establishments as a source of safety information Surveys of medical students and trainees should be developed to optimise them as a source of feedback of perceptions of the standards …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted
F160	Training and training establishments as a source of safety information Proactive steps need to be taken to encourage openness on the part of trainees and to protect them from any adverse consequences …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted
F161	Training and training establishments as a source of safety information Training visits should make an important contribution to the protection of patients: Obtaining information directly from trainees should remain a valuable source …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted
F162	Training and training establishments as a source of safety information The General Medical Council should in the course of its review of its standards and regulatory process ensure that the system of …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted
F163	Safe staff numbers and skills The General Medical Council's system of reviewing the acceptability of the provision of training by healthcare providers must include a review of …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted
F164	Approved Practice Settings The Department of Health and the General Medical Council should review whether the resources available for regulating Approved Practice Setting are adequate …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted in Part
F165	Approved Practice Settings The General Medical Council should immediately review its approved practice settings criteria with a view to recognition of the priority to be …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted in Part
F166	Approved Practice Settings The General Medical Council should in consultation with patient interest groups and the public immediately review its procedures for assuring compliance with …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted in Part
F167	Approved Practice Settings The Department of Health and the General Medical Council should review the powers available to the General Medical Council in support of …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted in Part
F168	Approved Practice Settings The Department of Health and the General Medical Council should consider making the necessary statutory (and regulatory changes) to incorporate the approved …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted in Part
F169	Role of the Department of Health and the National Quality Board The Department of Health, through the National Quality Board, should ensure that procedures are put in place for facilitating the identification of …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted in Part
F170	Health Education England Health Education England should have a medically qualified director of medical education and a lay patient representative on its board.	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted
F171	Deans All Local Education and Training Boards should have a post of medically qualified postgraduate dean responsible for all aspects of postgraduate medical …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted
F172	Proficiency in the English language The Government should consider urgently the introduction of a common requirement of proficiency in communication in the English language with patients and …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted
F173	Principles of openness transparency and candour Every healthcare organisation and everyone working for them must be honest, open and truthful in all their dealings with patients and the …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted
F174	Candour about harm Where death or serious harm has been or may have been caused to a patient by an act or omission of the …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted
F175	Candour about harm Full and truthful answers must be given to any question reasonably asked about his or her past or intended treatment by a …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted
F176	Openness with regulators Any statement made to a regulator or a commissioner in the course of its statutory duties must be completely truthful and not …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted
F177	Openness in public statements Any public statement made by a healthcare organisation about its performance must be truthful and not misleading by omission.	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted
F178	Implementation of the duty Ensuring consistency of obligations under the duty of openness transparency and candour The NHS Constitution should be revised to reflect the changes recommended with regard to a duty of openness, transparency and candour, and …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted in Part
F179	Restrictive contractual clauses "Gagging clauses" or non disparagement clauses should be prohibited in the policies and contracts of all healthcare organisations, regulators and commissioners; insofar …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted
F180	Candour about incidents Guidance and policies should be reviewed to ensure that they will lead to compliance with Being Open, the guidance published by the …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted
F181	Enforcement of the duty Statutory duties of candour in relation to harm to patients A statutory obligation should be imposed to observe a duty of candour: On healthcare providers who believe or suspect that treatment or …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted in Part
F182	Statutory duty of openness and transparency There should be a statutory duty on all directors of healthcare organisations to be truthful in any information given to a healthcare …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted
F183	Criminal liability It should be made a criminal offence for any registered medical practitioner, or nurse, or allied health professional or director of an …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Not Accepted
F184	Enforcement by the Care Quality Commission Observance of the duty should be policed by the Care Quality Commission, which should have powers in the last resort to prosecute …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted
F185	Focus on culture of caring There should be an increased focus in nurse training, education and professional development on the practical requirements of delivering compassionate care in …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted
F186	Practical hands-on training and experience Nursing training should be reviewed so that sufficient practical elements are incorporated to ensure that a consistent standard is achieved by all …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted
F187	Practical hands-on training and experience There should be a national entry-level requirement that student nurses spend a minimum period of time, at least three months, working on …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted
F188	Aptitude test for compassion and caring The Nursing and Midwifery Council, working with universities, should consider the introduction of an aptitude test to be undertaken by aspirant registered …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted in Part
F189	Consistent training The Nursing and Midwifery Council and other professional and academic bodies should work towards a common qualification assessment/examination.	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted in Part
F190	National standards There should be national training standards for qualification as a registered nurse to ensure that newly qualified nurses are competent to deliver …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted in Part
F191	Recruitment for values and commitment Healthcare employers recruiting nursing staff, whether qualified or unqualified, should assess candidates' values, attitudes and behaviours towards the well-being of patients and …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted
F192	Strong nursing voice The Department of Health and Nursing and Midwifery Council should introduce the concept of a Responsible Officer for nursing, appointed by and …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted in Part
F193	Standards for appraisal and support Without introducing a revalidation scheme immediately, the Nursing and Midwifery Council should introduce common minimum standards for appraisal and support with which …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted in Part
F194	Standards for appraisal and support As part of a mandatory annual performance appraisal, each Nurse, regardless of workplace setting, should be required to demonstrate in their annual …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted in Part
F195	Nurse leadership Ward nurse managers should operate in a supervisory capacity, and not be office-bound or expected to double up, except in emergencies as …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted in Part
F196	Nurse leadership The Knowledge and Skills Framework should be reviewed with a view to giving explicit recognition to nurses' demonstrations of commitment to patient …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted
F197	Nurse leadership Training and continuing professional development for nurses should include leadership training at every level from student to director. A resource for nurse …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted in Part
F198	Measuring cultural health Healthcare providers should be encouraged by incentives to develop and deploy reliable and transparent measures of the cultural health of front-line nursing …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted
F199	Key nurses Each patient should be allocated for each shift a named key nurse responsible for coordinating the provision of the care needs for …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted
F200	Key nurses Consideration should be given to the creation of a status of Registered Older Person's Nurse.	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted in Part

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