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Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear – Assurance review of practice and governance: Published March 2026

North East and Yorkshire Published 01 Mar 2026 Trust Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust

This is a Quality Assurance Review for the recommendations resulting from several serious incident investigation and governance reports involving Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust and other local stakeholders.

Acceptance status

Per recommendation

No Response Published

Total recommendations

About this data

Acceptance status tracks whether the trust accepted or responded to each recommendation.

Independent health investigation reports and reviews commissioned by government or NHS England.

About this investigation

Source & metadata

Independent investigation report. Recommendations and any published response are extracted below.

Recommendations

2 total

Recommendation

Practitioners whom we interviewed were (almost all) supportive of the structure and intentions of the Trust’s approach to risk assessment and safety planning, and (almost all) keen to see additional and regular training opportunities to improve practice. We think such … Read more

Recommendation

We finally recommend that a further audit should take place in 18 months to 2 years’ time, to ensure that good practice is continuing to develop and be embedded across the Trust.