Nicola Welsh
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Recommendations
Recommendations (the sheriff's words)The appropriate authorities should ensure that common abbreviations and phrases are used to denote observations and symptoms and the tests carried out to check for or eliminate certain conditions are standardised. In this way others requiring to access notes can be confident of what they mean and the steps carried out at the time when the patient was seen. Guidelines should be promoted whereby the doctor in charge of ward round checks, countersigns and if necessary amends the case notes made of the ward round by a Junior Doctor.
Under section 28 of the 2016 Act, each recipient of a recommendation must respond within 8 weeks. The 8-week window is counted from the publication date. See how we track responses.
Section 28 responses
Overall status, as assessed by this site: Response pending
No response has been identified on the case landing page yet. The 8-week window has closed without a published response or non-response notice.
About Fatal Accident Inquiries
Fatal Accident Inquiries are held under the 2016 Act before a sheriff. They are mandatory for deaths in custody and at work. The sheriff may make recommendations under s.26(1)(b); recipients must respond within 8 weeks under s.28. See the methodology page for detail.
Data: scotcourts.gov.uk.