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Recommendations: Scottish Hospitals Inquiry

1,814 tracked recommendations 35 inquiries 11 match current filters

Recommendations issued by UK statutory and non-statutory inquiries, with their tracked government response and supporting evidence.

Recommendations

11 of 1,814

Code	Recommendation	Inquiry	Response
SHI-1	Communication strategy for patients and families Health boards must ensure that in the event of any adverse situation that could affect the wellbeing of patients and their families, …	Scottish Hospitals Inquiry (2025)	Accepted
SHI-2	Risk assessment on funding model changes Accordingly, in situations where the funding model or procurement route changes mid project, a risk assessment should be conducted to assess whether …	Scottish Hospitals Inquiry (2025)	Accepted
SHI-3	Clarity in brief for healthcare facility construction It is critical that a health board formulates and then presents its requirements for the key building systems in a proposed healthcare …	Scottish Hospitals Inquiry (2025)	Accepted
SHI-4	Standard form for derogations from guidance The evidence before the Inquiry from the public sector (including NHSL), and industry, indicated that a standard form of derogation for use …	Scottish Hospitals Inquiry (2025)	Accepted
SHI-5	Streamlining NHS construction quality procedures A range of procedures now exists to help ensure health board projects meet appropriate standards. One is the NHS Scotland Design Assessment …	Scottish Hospitals Inquiry (2025)	Accepted
SHI-6	Information on common construction errors It is important that common project errors are not repeated. One helpful step is to ensure health boards undertaking projects have information …	Scottish Hospitals Inquiry (2025)	Accepted
SHI-7	Independent validation of hospital construction It is clearly desirable that a health board has the assurance prior to the handover of a new or refurbished healthcare facility …	Scottish Hospitals Inquiry (2025)	Accepted
SHI-8	IPC role specifications and staffing levels I accordingly recommend that priority be given to protecting scarce IPC resources. With that objective in view, what is expected of consideration …	Scottish Hospitals Inquiry (2025)	Accepted
SHI-9	Documentation of technical adviser advice I accordingly recommend that a similar procedure should be considered when technical advisers (particularly engineers) are providing specific technical advice in relation …	Scottish Hospitals Inquiry (2025)	Accepted
SHI-10	Uniform policy for obtaining technical advice This issue was highlighted in the Grant Thornton report where similar recommendations are made to what is set out above. NHSL has …	Scottish Hospitals Inquiry (2025)	Accepted
SHI-11	Training for IPC professionals engineers and clinicians I would recommend that IPC professionals should receive some basic training on the recommendations made by the NHS's own guidance for engineering …	Scottish Hospitals Inquiry (2025)	Accepted