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GP
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Government Response
Recommendations in This Theme
recommendation across 3 inquiries
Across 3 inquiries
Tagged Recommendations
Update guidance on fit to fly and fit for detention medical assessments
The Home Office must review and update Detention Services Order 01/2016: The Protection, Use and Sharing of Medical Information Relating to People Detained Under Immigration Powers, to ensure that guidance …
- In March 2024, the Home Office accepted this recommendation in principle but stated that fit to fly assessments are a "medico-legal practice" outside the …
Home Office
Patient-focused correspondence
We recommend that it should be standard practice that consultants in both the NHS and the independent sector should write to patients, outlining their condition and treatment, in simple language, …
- The Academy of Medical Royal Colleges (AoMRC) updated its 'Please write to me' guidance in 2018, stipulating that outpatient letters should be written directly …
Department of Health and…
GP Notification of Death Circumstances
A deceased's family GP should be notified promptly as to the circumstances of death to enable support to be offered in bereavement.
HSC Trusts