Patients: Death

(asked on 12th April 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Learning from Deaths programme, what recent assessment he has made of the independence of NHS investigation systems.


Answered by
Nadine Dorries Portrait
Nadine Dorries
This question was answered on 21st April 2021

The Department works closely with NHS England and NHS Improvement to ensure that there are independent and transparent systems in place to support those affected by patient safety incidents.

Following an assessment of the current systems, NHS England and NHS Improvement are piloting a new Patient Safety Incident Response Framework to replace the current Serious Incident Framework used for investigations. An update on the development of the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework is available at the following link:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/patient-safety/serious-incident-framework/

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