The Government’s progress against patient safety recommendations
it has agreed to implement is the focus of a new evaluation by
the committee’s independent Expert Panel.
Experts will consider a range of recommendations made by public
inquiries and reviews on patient safety, including
whistleblowing, which have been accepted by government, and
select a number of these for evaluation. The Panel will in its
final report provide a rating of the Government’s progress
against each of these recommendations.
, Chair of the Health and
Social Care Committee, said:
“We’ve now had a large number of public inquiries, around
failures in patient safety, and we owe it to them all before we
embark on another one to see if what’s been recommended before
has actually happened.
“The Expert Panel will therefore, as I promised in the wake of
the Letby verdict, be carrying out an important body of work in
evaluating the Government’s progress to implement crucial patient
safety related recommendations made by a range of inquiries and
reviews.
“The Committee looks forward to considering the Expert Panel’s
findings in due course.”
Professor Dame Jane Dacre, Chair of the Expert Panel,
said:
“The confidence of patients in the NHS can be shattered when
failures in patient safety make headlines.
“In the most serious cases, a public inquiry or review appointed
to examine what has gone wrong is likely to produce a series of
recommendations for actions to safeguard against future lapses.
“We want to find out what progress has been made by the
government on recommendations it has accepted to improve patient
safety in the NHS and will be reporting our findings to the
Health and Social Care Committee.”
