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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
F245	Board accountability Each provider organisation should have a board level member with responsibility for information.	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted in Part
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
F251	Regulatory oversight of quality accounts The Care Quality Commission and/or Monitor should keep the accuracy, fairness and balance of quality accounts under review and should be enabled …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted in Part
F257	Role of the Health and Social Care Information Centre The Information Centre should be tasked with the independent collection, analysis, publication and oversight of healthcare information in England, or, with the …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted in Part
F260	Information standards The standards applied to statistical information about serious untoward incidents should be the same as for any other healthcare information and in …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted in Part
F273	Information to coroners The terms of authorisation, licensing and registration and any relevant guidance should oblige healthcare providers to provide all relevant information to enable …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted in Part
F275	Independent medical examiners It is of considerable importance that independent medical examiners are independent of the organisation whose patients' deaths are being scrutinised.	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted in Part

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