Standards
Recommendations related to standards
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recommendation across 9 inquiries
Across 9 inquiries
Tagged Recommendations
No deceased left out of fridges overnight
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust must assure itself that all regulatory requirements and standards relating to the mortuary are met and that the practice of leaving deceased people out …
Unlicensed body stores follow same standards
Where local authorities provide an unlicensed body store, they should do so in line with this Report's recommendations to local authority providers of licensed mortuaries.
Statutory regulation of funeral directors
The UK government should establish an independent statutory regulatory regime for funeral directors in England as a matter of urgency in order to safeguard the security and dignity of the …
Regulations consider whole deceased journey
These regulations and standards should be considered within the overall care and journey of the deceased rather than applying in isolation to funeral directors.
Mandatory information from funeral directors
The standards should include details of mandatory information to be given to customers by funeral directors to provide transparency about the care of the deceased, including information on measures to …
Direct cremation in scope for standards
Direct cremation businesses should also be considered in this context, and mandatory standards to protect the security and dignity of the deceased should be applied to these businesses and to …
Body store security standards match HTA-licensed facilities
The NHS should ensure that the security standards required for body stores are the same as those required for facilities licensed by the Human Tissue Authority.
Clarify BS 9414 limitations requiring fire engineer assessment
BS 9414 should be approached with caution and we recommend that the government make it clear that it should not be used as a substitute for an assessment by a …
Amend BS 750 for flow coefficient measurement
That the British Standards Institution amend BS 750 to include a description of the circumstances under which the flow coefficient to which it refers in paragraph 10.2 is to be …
National LADO standards
The Department for Education and the Welsh Government should: introduce a set of national standards for local authority designated officers in England and Wales to promote consistency; and clarify in …
Welsh independent school standards update
The Welsh Government should: update the Independent School Standards as a matter of urgency; update the national minimum standards for boarding schools as a matter of urgency; legislate so that …
Independent Compliance Assessment
In addition, the Northern Ireland Executive and Assembly ought, in the Inquiry's view, to give due consideration to an independent mechanism to assess compliance with codes of conduct in public …
Independent sector NHS contract qualification
We recommend that, if the Government accepts any of the recommendations concerned, it should make arrangements to ensure that these are to be applicable across the whole of the independent …
Post-Mortem Reporting Standards
In providing post-mortem reports pathologists should be under a duty to: (i) Satisfy themselves, insofar as is practicable, as to the accuracy and completeness of the information briefed them. (ii) …
GMC Code in Employment Contracts
General Medical Council ('GMC') 'Good Medical Practice' Code requirements should be incorporated into contracts of employment for doctors.
Review Healthcare Standards
The Department should review healthcare standards in light of the findings and recommendations of this report and make such changes as are necessary.
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.
National standards for clinical leads
Clear national standards should be drawn up setting out the professional duties and expectations of clinical leads at all levels, including, but not limited to, clinical directors, clinical leads, heads …
Fundamental standards of behaviour
The NHS Constitution should incorporate an expectation that staff will follow guidance and comply with standards relevant to their work, such as those produced by the National Institute for Health …
Fundamental standards of behaviour
Healthcare professionals should be prepared to contribute to the development of, and comply with, standard procedures in the areas in which they work. Their managers need to ensure that their …
Complaints handling
The recommendations and standards suggested in the Patients Association's peer review into complaints at the Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust should be reviewed and implemented in the NHS.
Duty to require and monitor delivery of fundamental standards
The commissioner is entitled to and should, wherever it is possible to do so, apply a fundamental safety and quality standard in respect of each item of service it is …
Responsibility for requiring and monitoring delivery of enhanced standards
In addition to their duties with regard to the fundamental standards, commissioners should be enabled to promote improvement by requiring compliance with enhanced standards or development towards higher standards. They …
The nature of standards
Standards should be divided into: Fundamental standards of minimum safety and quality – in respect of which non-compliance should not be tolerated. Failures leading to death or serious harm should …
The need to put patients first at all times
The first priority for any organisation charged with responsibility for performance management of a healthcare provider should be ensuring that fundamental patient safety and quality standards are being met. Such …
The nature of standards
In addition to the fundamental standards of service, the regulations should include generic requirements for a governance system designed to ensure compliance with fundamental standards, and the provision and publication …
The nature of standards
All the required elements of governance should be brought together into one comprehensive standard. This should require not only evidence of a working system but also a demonstration that it …
Medical training
The system for approving and accrediting training placement providers and programmes should be configured to apply the principles set out above.
Responsibility for setting standards
The Government, through regulation, but after so far as possible achieving consensus between the public and professional representatives, should provide for the fundamental standards which should define outcomes for patients …
Training and training establishments as a source of safety information
The General Medical Council should in the course of its review of its standards and regulatory process ensure that the system of medical training and education maintains as its first …
Approved Practice Settings
The General Medical Council should immediately review its approved practice settings criteria with a view to recognition of the priority to be given to protecting patients and the public.
Responsibility for setting standards
The NHS Commissioning Board together with Clinical Commissioning Groups should devise enhanced quality standards designed to drive improvement in the health service. Failure to comply with such standards should be …
Responsibility for setting standards
It is essential that professional bodies in which doctors and nurses have confidence are fully involved in the formulation of standards and in the means of measuring compliance.
Practical hands-on training and experience
Nursing training should be reviewed so that sufficient practical elements are incorporated to ensure that a consistent standard is achieved by all trainees throughout the country. This requires national standards.
Consistent training
The Nursing and Midwifery Council and other professional and academic bodies should work towards a common qualification assessment/examination.
National standards
There should be national training standards for qualification as a registered nurse to ensure that newly qualified nurses are competent to deliver a consistent standard of the fundamental aspects of …
Responsibility for regulating and monitoring compliance
The Care Quality Commission should be responsible for policing the fundamental standards, through the development of its core outcomes, by specifying the indicators by which it intends to monitor compliance …
Code of conduct for healthcare support workers
There should be a national code of conduct for healthcare support workers.
Training standards for healthcare support workers
There should be a common set of national standards for the education and training of healthcare support workers.
Training standards for healthcare support workers
The code of conduct, education and training standards and requirements for registration for healthcare support workers should be prepared and maintained by the Nursing and Midwifery Council after due consultation …
Responsibility for regulating and monitoring compliance
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence should be commissioned to formulate standard procedures and practice designed to provide the practical means of compliance, and indicators by which compliance …
Ensuring common standards of competence and compliance
Consideration should be given to ensuring that there is regulatory oversight of the competence and compliance with appropriate standards by the boards of health service bodies which are not foundation …
Responsibility for regulating and monitoring compliance
The measures formulated by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence should include measures not only of clinical outcomes, but of the suitability and competence of staff, and the …
Responsibility for regulating and monitoring compliance
Compliance with regulatory fundamental standards must be capable so far as possible of being assessed by measures which are understood and accepted by the public and healthcare professionals.
Responsibility for regulating and monitoring compliance
It should be considered the duty of all specialty professional bodies, ideally together with the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, to develop measures of outcome in relation to …
Role of the Health and Social Care Information Centre
The Information Centre should continue to develop and maintain learning, standards and consensus with regard to information methodologies, with particular reference to comparative performance statistics.
Information standards
The standards applied to statistical information about serious untoward incidents should be the same as for any other healthcare information and in particular the principles around transparency and accessibility. It …
Death certification
National guidance should set out standard methodologies for approaching the certification of the cause of death to ensure, so far as possible, that similar approaches are universal.
Impact assessments before structural change
The Department of Health should together with healthcare systems regulators take the lead in developing through obtaining consensus between the public and healthcare professionals, a coherent, and easily accessible structure …
Focus on compliance with fundamental standards
The NHS Trust Development Authority should develop a rigorous process for the assessment as well as the support of potential applicants for foundation trust status. The assessment must include as …
Focus on compliance with fundamental standards
No NHS trust should be given support to make an application to Monitor unless, in addition to other criteria, the performance manager (the Strategic Health Authority cluster, the Department of …
Fundamental standards of behaviour
The NHS Constitution should include reference to all the relevant professional and managerial codes by which NHS staff are bound, including the Code of Conduct for NHS Managers.
NHS Litigation Authority Improvement of risk management
The Department of Health and NHS Commissioning Board should consider what steps are necessary to require all NHS providers, whether or not they remain members of the NHS Litigation Authority …
Complaint Handling Mechanism
The Board should require all those who subscribe to have an adequate and speedy complaint handling mechanism; it should encourage those who wish to complain to do so through that …
Power to Hear Complaints
The Board should have the power to hear and decide on complaints about breach of the standards code by those who subscribe. The Board should have the power (but not …
Recognition Requirements
The requirements for recognition should be those set out the recommendations set out above numbered 1 to 24 inclusive and more fully described in Part K, Chapter 7, Section 4 …
Compliance Reports and Senior Responsibility
In addition to Recommendation 10 above, a new regulatory body should consider requiring: (a) that newspapers publish compliance reports in their own pages to ensure that their readers have easy …
Kite Mark for Trusted Journalism
A new regulatory body should consider establishing a kite mark for use by members to establish a recognised brand of trusted journalism.
Code Review with Public Consultation
A regulatory body should consider engaging in an early thorough review of the Code (on which the public should be engaged and consulted) with the aim of developing a clearer …
Pre-litigation Complaints
A regulatory body should be prepared to allow a complaint to be brought prior to commencing legal proceedings if so advised. Challenges to that approach (and applications to stay) can …
Public Advice and Warning Service
A new regulatory body should continue to provide advice to the public in relation to issues concerning the press and the Code along with a service to warn the press, …
Strict Accountability for Published Material
A new regulatory body should make it clear that newspapers will be held strictly accountable, under their standards code, for any material that they publish, including photographs (however sourced).
Public Interest Record Keeping
A new regulatory body should consider being explicit that where a public interest justification is to be relied upon, a record should be available of the factors weighing against and …
Advisory Service on Public Interest
A new regulatory body should consider whether it might provide an advisory service to editors in relation to consideration of the public interest in taking particular actions.
Source Transparency
A new regulatory body should consider encouraging the press to be as transparent as possible in relation to the sources used for stories, including providing any information that would help …
Whistleblowing Hotline
A regulatory body should establish a whistleblowing hotline for those who feel that they are being asked to do things which are contrary to the code.
Journalist Contract Protection
The industry generally and a regulatory body in particular should consider requiring its members to include in the employment or service contracts with journalists a clause to the effect that …
ICO Regard for Regulatory Membership
Specific provision should be made to the effect that, in considering the exercise of any of its powers in relation to the media or other publishers, the Information Commissioner's Office …
Standards Code Responsibility
The standards code must ultimately be the responsibility of, and adopted by, the Board, advised by a Code Committee which may comprise both independent members of the Board and serving …
Code Content Requirements
The code must take into account the importance of freedom of speech, the interests of the public (including the public interest in detecting or exposing crime or serous impropriety, protecting …