Policy
Recommendations related to policy
Tag overview
recommendation across 10 inquiries
Across 10 inquiries
Tagged Recommendations
Clear records and disclosure policies
Policies must be specific as to records to be kept and for routes to disclosure for relevant family members and people with learning disabilities and autistic people themselves where possible.
CCTV policies agreed with staff residents and families
Policies governing the use of CCTV should be agreed only after consultation with staff, residents and their families using the service.
CCTV viewing circumstances
Policies should include careful consideration of the circumstances in which the CCTV should be viewed; for example, that it should be viewed when concerns are raised by residents, families or …
CCTV for staff training consideration
Those drafting the policy should consider whether CCTV could ever be used for staff training and, if so, how this would be done.
Survivability advice to persons in distress
HM Coastguard should amend its existing policies to incorporate the need to provide more comprehensive advice about survivability to people in distress at sea.
Cold water survivability modelling
HM Coastguard should examine whether it is using the most appropriate modelling for survivability in cold water. HM Coastguard should amend its existing policies to ensure that they consistently identify …
Review policies on mortuary access
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust must review its policies to ensure that only those with appropriate and legitimate access can enter the mortuary.
Deceased included in safeguarding training and policy
NHS trust boards should ensure that the security and dignity of deceased people are included in safeguarding training, policies and assurance.
Ambulance policy on crew position with deceased
Every NHS ambulance service should have a policy setting out where ambulance crew members should sit when conveying deceased patients. This should include reference to the risk of abuse of …
Ambulance policies on deceased security and dignity
NHS ambulance services should also have policies regarding the security and dignity of the deceased, including when the deceased should be covered and/or secured. NHS England should monitor that such …
Ambulance photography policies
Every NHS ambulance service must put policies in place regarding taking photographs of deceased patients, including any circumstances in which this may be required, and ensure that ambulance staff are …
Local authority single security SOP
All policies and procedures in relation to the security of the mortuary must be accurately and comprehensively reflected in a single security Standard Operating Procedure.
Church funding policy for victim support
The Church of England and the Church in Wales should each introduce a Church-wide policy on the funding and provision of support to victims and survivors of child sexual abuse …
Posthumous honours forfeiture policy
The Cabinet Office should re-examine the policy on posthumous forfeiture, in order to consider the perspectives of victims and survivors of child sexual abuse.
Government department safeguarding policy reviews
The Cabinet Office must ensure that each government department reviews its child safeguarding policy or policies in light of the expert witness report of Professor Thoburn. There must also be …
Honours forfeiture for CSA convictions
The criteria for forfeiture of all honours must be formally extended to include convictions, cautions and cases decided by trial of the facts involving offences of child sexual abuse. This …
Age-Appropriate Hospital Settings
Health and Social Care ('HSC') Trusts should publish policy and procedure for ensuring that children and young people are cared for in age-appropriate hospital settings.
Employment Contracts and Duty of Candour
Trusts should review their contracts of employment, policies and guidance to ensure that, where relevant, they include and are consistent with the duty of candour.
Policy on Learning from SAI Deaths
Each Trust should publish policy detailing how it will respond to and learn from SAI related patient deaths.
Impact assessment of policy changes
The cumulative impact of new policies and processes, particularly the perceived pressure to achieve Foundation Trust status, together with organisational reconfiguration, placed significant pressure on the management capacity of the …
HAI implementation strategy
Scottish Government should ensure that policies and guidance on healthcare associated infection are accompanied by an implementation strategy and that implementation is monitored.
IPC policy review
Health Boards should ensure that infection prevention and control policies are reviewed promptly in response to any new policies or guidance issued by or on behalf of the Scottish Government, …
Antimicrobial guidance implementation
Health Boards should ensure that changes in policy and/or guidance on antimicrobial practice issued by or on behalf of Scottish Government are implemented without delay.
Clinical input
The Department of Health should ensure that there is senior clinical involvement in all policy decisions which may impact on patient safety and well-being.
Experience on the front line
Department of Health officials need to connect more to the NHS by visits, and most importantly by personal contact with those who have suffered poor experiences. The Department of Health …
ICO Policy on Press Regulation
The Information Commissioner's Office should take immediate steps to prepare, adopt and publish a policy on the exercise of its formal regulatory functions in order to ensure that the press …
Party Policy on Press Relations
As a first step, political leaders should reflect constructively on the merits of publishing on behalf of their party a statement setting out, for the public, an explanation of the …
Plurality Focus on News
The particular public policy goals of ensuring that citizens are informed and preventing too much influence in any one pair of hands over the political process are most directly served …
Tactical Questioning Policy Clarity
Urgent consideration must be given to amending the tactical questioning policy to make clear what approaches are and are not authorised for use in tactical questioning. In future all tactical …
Guidance on Exploiting Pressures
The tactical questioning and interrogation policies should give more detailed guidance on the extent to which tactical questioners and interrogators may seek to exploit self and system induced pressures.
Tactical Questioning Audit Procedure
The tactical questioning policy should be amended to include a clear and simple auditing procedure.