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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
F147	Coordination of local public scrutiny bodies Guidance should be given to promote the coordination and cooperation between Local Healthwatch, Health and Wellbeing Boards, and local government scrutiny committees.	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted
F148	Training The complexities of the health service are such that proper training must be available to the leadership of Local Healthwatch as well …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted
F149	Expert assistance Scrutiny committees should be provided with appropriate support to enable them to carry out their scrutiny role, including easily accessible guidance and …	Mid Staffs Inquiry (2013)	Accepted
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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

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