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Audit

Recommendations related to audit

33 recommendations 73% accepted

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Government Response
Accepted (19)
Accepted in Part (5)
Not Accepted (1)
Under Review (2)
Awaiting Response (6)
Recommendations in This Theme

recommendation across 14 inquiries

Across 14 inquiries

Tagged Recommendations

33 total
R23 Response Pending Muckamore Abbey Inquiry

Regular property and finance compliance checks

All organisations taking responsibility for property and/or finance for people with learning disabilities and autistic people should institute regular checks of adherence to their policies. This includes local checks, corporate …

Northern Ireland Executi…
R36 Response Pending Muckamore Abbey Inquiry

Seclusion as extraordinary intervention with serious event audit

Use of seclusion should be considered an extraordinary and exceptional intervention. Each intervention should be subject to a serious event audit, conducted by a professional outside the service provider’s learning …

Northern Ireland Executi…
R55 Response Pending Muckamore Abbey Inquiry

External CCTV oversight

Oversight of the CCTV analysis should sit outside the setting in which the CCTV is recording, and should include audits of referrals and outcomes.

Northern Ireland Executi…
R66 Response Pending Muckamore Abbey Inquiry

Quarterly safeguarding file audit

A quarterly multidisciplinary audit of 10% of safeguarding files per ward or residential unit should be conducted. Findings must be integrated with incident data and reported to the Executive Team, …

Northern Ireland Executi…
R78 Response Pending Muckamore Abbey Inquiry

Audit committee implementation tracking

HSCT Board audit committees should consider all internal audit recommendations and require directorates to provide updates on implementation three months, six months and one year after the internal audit report …

Northern Ireland Executi…
R8 Response Pending Muckamore Abbey Inquiry

Medication audit and NICE compliance

Medication should never be used simply to subdue people in the absence of other forms of treatment and good quality care. DoH should issue a regional audit pro forma to …

Northern Ireland Executi…
P1-10 Accepted Fuller Inquiry

Regular CCTV review with swipe card data

Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust must ensure that footage from the CCTV is reviewed on a regular basis by appropriately trained staff and examined in conjunction with swipe card …

- MTW Trust stated in February 2024 that it had implemented regular review of CCTV footage from the mortuary as part of routine security procedures …
Maidstone and Tunbridge …
P1-7 Accepted Fuller Inquiry

Audit and monitor mortuary access

Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust must audit implementation of any resulting new policy and must regularly monitor access to restricted areas, including the mortuary, by all staff and contractors.

- MTW Trust stated in February 2024 that it had implemented audit procedures to monitor access to restricted areas within the mortuary (MTW Trust Assurance …
Maidstone and Tunbridge …
P2-3 Accepted in Part Fuller Inquiry

Audit access data for deceased storage

All NHS trusts should routinely audit the access data of all facilities used to store deceased people.

- The government stated in December 2025 that this recommendation on auditing access to NHS mortuaries was accepted in principle. Standards and guidance to be …
NHS England
P2-39 Accepted in Part Fuller Inquiry

Local authority security audits

Routine and regular audits of security must be conducted, encompassing both access to and exit from the mortuary and movement within it, including the post-mortem room. Access data must be …

- The government stated in December 2025 that this recommendation on regular audits of local authority mortuary security was accepted in principle. Full government response …
Ministry of Housing, Com…
P2-51 Accepted in Part Fuller Inquiry

Local authority biennial audits and peer review

The mortuary service must be reviewed by professional auditors at least biennially, with the results of the audit reported to a formal committee regardless of the level of assurance. Local …

- The government stated in December 2025 that this recommendation on professional audits of local authority mortuaries was accepted in principle. Full government response due …
Ministry of Housing, Com…
P2-8 Accepted in Part Fuller Inquiry

Swipe to exit for mortuaries

All NHS trusts should consider the installation of 'swipe to exit' for mortuary facilities. This would allow trusts to monitor and audit entry and exit, as well as time spent …

- The government stated in December 2025 that this recommendation on requiring swipe-to-exit controls in NHS mortuaries was accepted in principle. Full government response due …
NHS England
IBI-4d Accepted Infected Blood Inquiry

Patient Records Audit

Patient Records: Before the end of 2027 there should be a formal audit, publicly reported, of the extent of success of digitisation of patient records in each of the four …

- The Government's implementation dashboard records this recommendation as: Accepted in principle by the UK Government, Welsh Government and the Northern Ireland Executive. Accepted in …
UK Government
13 Accepted in Part Brook House Inquiry

Quarterly auditing of Rule 40 and Rule 42 use

The Home Office must regularly (and at least quarterly) audit the use of Rule 40 and Rule 42 across the immigration detention estate, in order to identify trends, any training …

- In March 2024, the Home Office committed to compliance auditing across the detention estate as part of the DSO revision, noting this recommendation was …
Home Office
9 Under Consideration Brook House Inquiry

Ensure effective operation and auditing of all Rule 35 limbs

The Home Office must, across the immigration detention estate, assure itself that all three limbs of Rule 35 of the Detention Centre Rules 2001 (reports by a medical practitioner where: …

- In March 2024, the Home Office stated that a detention gatekeeper system reviews suitability for detention and that a review of the Adults at …
Home Office
ETI-24 Under Consideration Edinburgh Tram Inquiry

Duty of Disclosure Legislation

Scottish Ministers should consider the need for legislation to impose a similar duty of disclosure to that owed by policyholders to their insurers upon a company, its directors, employees or …

- In November 2023, the Scottish Government stated it was "giving careful consideration" to the recommendations about provisions for misleading evidence (Transport Secretary Statement on …
Scottish Government
46 Accepted IICSA

Church independent external safeguarding audits

The Church in Wales should introduce independent external auditing of its safeguarding policies and procedures, as well as the effectiveness of safeguarding practice in dioceses, cathedrals and other Church organisations. …

- In March 2021, the Church of England stated that it remained committed to independent external auditing of safeguarding, noting this recommendation was directed at …
Church of England
50 Accepted IICSA

Independent validation of Catholic audit programme

The Catholic Safeguarding Advisory Service should have the effectiveness of its audit programme regularly validated by an independent organisation which is external to the Church. These independent reports should be …

- On 30 September 2021, the Catholic Council for the Inquiry stated that the Catholic Safeguarding Standards Agency Board was committed to independent validation of …
Catholic Safeguarding Ad…
RHI-28 Accepted RHI Inquiry

Record Keeping Culture and Audit

The culture and practice of record keeping and access to records within the Northern Ireland Civil Service needs to change so that staff responsible for a given area of work …

- In October 2021, the NI Executive accepted this recommendation in full (NI Executive Response to RHI Inquiry, Department of Finance, October 2021). - The …
Northern Ireland Executi…
IHRD-29 Accepted Hyponatraemia Inquiry

Record Keeping Audit

Record keeping should be subject to rigorous, routine and regular audit.

HSC Trusts
IHRD-48 Accepted Hyponatraemia Inquiry

Mortality Meeting Recording and Audit

The proceedings of mortality meetings should be digitally recorded, the recording securely archived and an annual audit made of proceedings and procedures.

HSC Trusts
IHRD-76 Accepted Hyponatraemia Inquiry

Publication of Clinical Standards

Clinical standards of care, such as patients might reasonably expect, should be published and made subject to regular audit.

HSC Trusts
IHRD-78 Accepted Hyponatraemia Inquiry

Clinical Guidelines Audit

Implementation of clinical guidelines should be documented and routinely audited.

HSC Trusts
IHRD-96 Accepted Hyponatraemia Inquiry

Healthcare Litigation Standards

The Department should provide clear standards to govern the management of healthcare litigation by Trusts and the work of Trust employees and legal advisors in this connection should be audited.

Department of Health NI
7 Accepted Morecambe Bay Investigation

Audit maternity and paediatric services

The University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust should audit the operation of maternity and paediatric services, to ensure that they follow risk assessment protocols on place of delivery, …

- In July 2015, the government stated that the Trust was putting plans in place to audit maternity and paediatric services against risk assessment protocols, …
University Hospitals of …
R52 Accepted Vale of Leven Inquiry

IPC policy adherence audits

Health Boards should ensure that adherence to infection prevention and control polices, for example C. difficile and Loose Stools Policies, is audited at least annually.

- The Scottish Government published its response to the Vale of Leven Hospital Inquiry Report on 18 June 2015, accepting all 75 recommendations and establishing …
NHS Health Boards (Scotl…
R75 Accepted Vale of Leven Inquiry

Health Board review of IPC reports

Health Boards should review such reports to determine what lessons can be learned and what reviews, audits or other measures (interim or otherwise) should be put in place.

- The Scottish Government published its response to the Vale of Leven Hospital Inquiry Report on 18 June 2015, accepting all 75 recommendations and establishing …
NHS Health Boards (Scotl…
F248 Accepted Mid Staffs Inquiry

Accountability for quality accounts

Healthcare providers should be required to have their quality accounts independently audited. Auditors should be given a wider remit enabling them to use their professional judgement in examining the reliability …

- The government's response in "Hard Truths" (Cm 8777, November 2013) accepted this recommendation in principle (Hard Truths: the Journey to Putting Patients First, DHSC, …
Healthcare providers
F269 Accepted Mid Staffs Inquiry

Improving and assuring accuracy

The only practical way of ensuring reasonable accuracy is vigilant auditing at local level of the data put into the system. This is important work, which must be continued and …

- The government's response in "Hard Truths" (Cm 8777, November 2013) accepted this recommendation (Hard Truths: the Journey to Putting Patients First, DHSC, November 2013). …
Healthcare providers
L78 Accepted Leveson Inquiry

PNC Access Auditing

The Police Service should re-examine the rigour of the auditing process and the frequency of the conduct of audits in relation to access to the Police National Computer (PNC). Additional …

- The College of Policing APP on information management covers access to the Police National Computer (PNC), including requirements for auditing and access controls (College …
Police National Police Chiefs C…
BAHA-27 Accepted Baha Mousa Inquiry

Interrogation Video Audit

The interrogation policy should require, as part of the auditing process, a review of a selection of video recordings of interrogations of the inspector's choosing. Interrogators should know that the …

- The Defence Secretary stated on 8 September 2011 that the government accepted this recommendation and stated that video recording review had been incorporated into …
Ministry of Defence
BAHA-28 Accepted Baha Mousa Inquiry

Tactical Questioning Audit Procedure

The tactical questioning policy should be amended to include a clear and simple auditing procedure.

- The Defence Secretary stated on 8 September 2011 that the government accepted this recommendation and stated that a clear auditing procedure for tactical questioning …
Ministry of Defence
ICL-4 Not Accepted ICL Inquiry

Independent Risk Assessment Audit

The current risk assessment system should be improved by the addition of an independent audit process.

Health and Safety Execut…