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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
F201	Strengthening the nursing professional voice The Royal College of Nursing should consider whether it should formally divide its "Royal College" functions and its employee representative/trade union functions …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted
F202	Strengthening the nursing professional voice Recognition of the importance of nursing representation at provider level should be given by ensuring that adequate time is allowed for staff …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted
F203	Strengthening the nursing professional voice A forum for all directors of nursing from both NHS and independent sector organisations should be formed to provide a means of …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted
F204	Strengthening the nursing professional voice All healthcare providers and commissioning organisations should be required to have at least one executive director who is a registered nurse, and …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted in Part
F205	Strengthening the nursing professional voice Commissioning arrangements should require the boards of provider organisations to seek and record the advice of its nursing director on the impact …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted in Part
F206	Strengthening the nursing professional voice The effectiveness of the newly positioned office of Chief Nursing Officer should be kept under review to ensure the maintenance of a …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted
F207	Strengthening identification of healthcare support workers and nurses There should be a uniform description of healthcare support workers, with the relationship with currently registered nurses made clear by the title.	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted in Part
F208	Strengthening identification of healthcare support workers and nurses Commissioning arrangements should require provider organisations to ensure by means of identity labels and uniforms that a healthcare support worker is easily …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted in Part
F209	Registration of healthcare support workers A registration system should be created under which no unregistered person should be permitted to provide for reward direct physical care to …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Not Accepted
F210	Code of conduct for healthcare support workers There should be a national code of conduct for healthcare support workers.	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted
F211	Training standards for healthcare support workers There should be a common set of national standards for the education and training of healthcare support workers.	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted
F212	Training standards for healthcare support workers The code of conduct, education and training standards and requirements for registration for healthcare support workers should be prepared and maintained by …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Not Accepted
F213	Training standards for healthcare support workers Until such time as the Nursing and Midwifery Council is charged with the recommended regulatory responsibilities, the Department of Health should institute …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Not Accepted
F214	Shared training A leadership staff college or training system, whether centralised or regional, should be created to: provide common professional training in management and …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted
F215	Shared code of ethics A common code of ethics, standards and conduct for senior board-level healthcare leaders and managers should be produced and steps taken to …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted
F216	Leadership framework The leadership framework should be improved by increasing the emphasis given to patient safety in the thinking of all in the health …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted
F217	Common selection criteria A list should be drawn up of all the qualities generally considered necessary for a good and effective leader. This in turn …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted in Part
F218	Enforcement of standards and accountability Serious non-compliance with the code, and in particular, non-compliance leading to actual or potential harm to patients, should render board-level leaders and …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted
F219	A regulator as an alternative An alternative option to enforcing compliance with a management code of conduct, with the risk of disqualification, would be to set up …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted in Part
F220	Accreditation A training facility could provide the route through which an accreditation scheme could be organised. Although this might be a voluntary scheme, …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted in Part
F221	Ensuring common standards of competence and compliance Consideration should be given to ensuring that there is regulatory oversight of the competence and compliance with appropriate standards by the boards …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted
F222	General Medical Council Systemic investigation where needed The General Medical Council should have a clear policy about the circumstances in which a generic complaint or report ought to be …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted
F223	Enhanced resources If the General Medical Council is to be effective in looking into generic complaints and information it will probably need either greater …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted in Part
F224	Information sharing Steps must be taken to systematise the exchange of information between the Royal Colleges and the General Medical Council, and to issue …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted
F225	Peer reviews The General Medical Council should have regard to the possibility of commissioning peer reviews pursuant to section 35 of the Medical Act …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted
F226	Nursing and Midwifery Council Investigation of systemic concerns To act as an effective regulator of nurse managers and leaders, as well as more front-line nurses, the Nursing and Midwifery Council …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted in Part
F227	Nursing and Midwifery Council Investigation of systemic concerns The Nursing and Midwifery Council needs to have its own internal capacity to assess systems and launch its own proactive investigations where …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted in Part
F228	Administrative reform It is of concern that the administration of the Nursing and Midwifery Council, which has not been examined by this Inquiry, is …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted
F229	Revalidation It is highly desirable that the Nursing and Midwifery Council introduces a system of revalidation similar to that of the General Medical …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted
F230	Profile The profile of the Nursing and Midwifery Council needs to be raised with the public, who are the prime and most valuable …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted
F231	Coordination with internal procedures It is essential that, so far as practicable, Nursing and Midwifery Council procedures do not obstruct the progress of internal disciplinary action …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted
F232	Employment liaison officers The Nursing and Midwifery Council could consider a concept of employment liaison officers, similar to that of the General Medical Council, to …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted
F233	For joint action Profile While both the General Medical Council and the Nursing and Midwifery Council have highly informative internet sites, both need to ensure that …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted
F234	Cooperation with the Care Quality Commission Both the General Medical Council and Nursing and Midwifery Council must develop closer working relationships with the Care Quality Commission – in …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted
F235	Joint proceedings The Professional Standards Authority for Health and Social Care (PSA) (formerly the Council for Healthcare Regulatory Excellence), together with the regulators under …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted in Part
F236	Identification of who is responsible for the patient Hospitals should review whether to reinstate the practice of identifying a senior clinician who is in charge of a patient's case, so …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted
F237	Teamwork There needs to be effective teamwork between all the different disciplines and services that together provide the collective care often required by …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted
F238	Communication with and about patients Regular interaction and engagement between nurses and patients and those close to them should be systematised through regular ward rounds: All staff …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted
F239	Continuing responsibility for care The care offered by a hospital should not end merely because the patient has surrendered a bed – it should never be …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted
F240	Hygiene All staff and visitors need to be reminded to comply with hygiene requirements. Any member of staff, however junior, should be encouraged …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted
F241	Provision of food and drink The arrangements and best practice for providing food and drink to elderly patients require constant review, monitoring and implementation.	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted
F242	Medicines administration In the absence of automatic checking and prompting, the process of the administration of medication needs to be overseen by the nurse …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted
F243	Recording of routine observations The recording of routine observations on the ward should, where possible, be done automatically as they are taken, with results being immediately …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted
F244	Common information practices shared data and electronic records There is a need for all to accept common information practices, and to feed performance information into shared databases for monitoring purposes. …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted
F245	Board accountability Each provider organisation should have a board level member with responsibility for information.	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted in Part
F246	Comparable quality accounts Department of Health/the NHS Commissioning Board/regulators should ensure that provider organisations publish in their annual quality accounts information in a common form …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted
F247	Accountability for quality accounts Healthcare providers should be required to lodge their quality accounts with all organisations commissioning services from them, Local Healthwatch, and all systems …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted
F248	Accountability for quality accounts Healthcare providers should be required to have their quality accounts independently audited. Auditors should be given a wider remit enabling them to …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted
F249	Accountability for quality accounts Each quality account should be accompanied by a declaration signed by all directors in office at the date of the account certifying …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted in Part
F250	Accountability for quality accounts It should be a criminal offence for a director to sign a declaration of belief that the contents of a quality account …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted in Part

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