Public Inquiry Recommendations

In England, Hospital Transfusion Committees and transfusion practitioners take steps to ensure that consideration of tranexamic acid be on every hospital surgical …

In Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland offering the use of tranexamic acid should be considered a treatment of preference in respect of …

Consideration be given to standardising and benchmarking transfusion performance between hospitals in order to deliver better patient blood management

Review of progress towards the Transfusion 2024 recommendations: Progress in implementation of the Transfusion 2024 recommendations be reviewed, and next steps be …

Transfusion laboratories: Transfusion laboratories should be staffed (and resourced) adequately to meet the requirements of their functions.

Training in Transfusion Medicine: That those bodies concerned with undergraduate and postgraduate training across the UK of those people who are, or …

Implementing SHOT reports: That all NHS organisations across the UK have a mechanism in place for implementing recommendations of Serious Hazard of …

Establishing the outcome of every transfusion: That a framework be established for recording outcomes for recipients of blood components. That those records …

Establishing the outcome of every transfusion: To the extent that the funding for digital transformation does not already cover the setting up …

Establishing the outcome of every transfusion: That funding for the provision of enhanced electronic clinical systems in relation to blood transfusion be …

When doctors become aware that a patient has had a blood transfusion prior to 1996, that patient should be offered a blood …

As a matter of routine, new patients registering at a practice should be asked if they have had such a transfusion.

That peer review of haemophilia care should continue to occur as presently practised, with any necessary support being provided by NHS Trusts …

That NHS Trusts and Health Boards should be required to deliberate on peer review findings and give favourable consideration to implementing the …

A peer review of each centre should take place not less than once every five years.

The necessary administrative and clinical resources should be provided by hospital trusts and boards, integrated care boards, and service commissioners to facilitate …

Recombinant coagulation factor products should be offered in place of plasma-derived ones where clinically appropriate. Service commissioners should ensure that such treatment …

That the National Haemophilia Database, run by the UKHCDO, merits the support of additional central funding.

A clinical audit should as a matter of routine include measures of patient satisfaction or concern, and these should be reported to …

That the following charities receive funding specifically for patient advocacy: the UK Haemophilia Society; the Hepatitis C Trust; Haemophilia Scotland; the Scottish …

That favourable consideration be given to other charities and organisations supporting people infected and affected that were granted core participant status (as …

Particular consideration be given, together with the UK Thalassaemia Society and the Sickle Cell Society, to how the needs of patients with …

Steps be taken to give greater prominence to the online Yellow Card system to those receiving drugs or biological products, or who …

That a minister should retain the power to call an inquiry as the minister sees fit, in accordance with the Inquiries Act …

If there is sufficient support from within Parliament for there to be an inquiry, the question whether there should be one should …

If it appears to PACAC that there is sufficient concern to justify a public inquiry, either because what happened and why has …

If the minister disagrees with the recommendation, they must set out in detail and publish reasons for this disagreement which are sufficient …

Within the next 12 months, the Government should consider and either commit to implementing the recommendations which I make, or give sufficient …

During that period, and before the end of this year – the Government should report back to Parliament as to the progress …

This timetable should not interfere with earlier consideration and response to the Recommendations of the Second Interim Report of the Inquiry.

The Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee (“PACAC”) should review both the progress towards responding to the Inquiry’s recommendations and, to the …

PACAC should accept the role in respect of any future statutory inquiry of reviewing the government’s timetable for consideration of recommendations, and …

An interim payment, of no less than £100,000, should be paid to all those infected and all bereaved partners currently registered with …

I recommend that the scheme should offer redress to those infected with HCV and/or HIV, and/or HBV (limited to chronic HBV unless …

I recommend that the conditions of eligibility for admission of relevant infected persons to the scheme should be that: a) they have …

As above, save that (a) the last bullet point should read: "eligibility is accepted if the information available points towards eligibility and …

I recommend that the following relevant affected persons should be admitted to the scheme: a) spouses, civil partners and long term cohabitees …

I recommend that infections eligible for compensation should be classified in the following manner: a) there should be defined categories for each …

I recommend that the appropriate award in any case should be composed under the following categories of loss, applicable to both eligible …

I recommend that there should be no award for exemplary damages, though it should remain open to a claimant to pursue such …

I recommend that the Government should approve a scheme setting out a framework of tariff based compensation for eligible infected and affected …

I recommend that, with reference to the status of awards: a) eligible infected and affected persons should not be required to accept …

I recommend that: a) awards should be made in a lump sum in respect of an Injury Impact Award, Social Impact Award, …

I recommend that interest be payable on awards for past financial losses and past provision of care, from the date of infection …

I recommend that an interim payment of £100,000 should be paid to recognise the deaths of people to date unrecognised and alleviate …

I recommend that, with regard to the relationship between compensation, support payments and benefits: a) in assessing compensation under the scheme, no …

I recommend that an Arms Length Body (ALB) should be set up to administer the compensation scheme, with guaranteed independence of judgement, …

I recommend that the scheme should include provision of the following support services to be provided without charge to the applicant: a) …

I recommend that the compensation scheme should be delivered by one central body, appropriately resourced and staffed. Current support schemes should however …

I recommend that without delay steps be taken to provide a bespoke psychological service in England.