The Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, has responded to a number of key reports on how the health service could be improved and set out his vision for a more ‘human focused’ NHS.
The Government has published Learning not Blaming, its full response to the ‘Freedom to Speak Up’ consultation, the Public Administration Select Committee (PASC) report on investigating clinical incidents in the NHS and the Morecambe Bay Foundation Trust Investigation. Jeremy Hunt told Parliament that when things go wrong “they will no longer be swept under the carpet” and that the NHS must “listen, learn and improve”.
The Morecambe Bay Investigation was established by the Secretary of State for Health in September 2013. It was set up in response to a series of maternal and neonatal deaths at the Trust between January 2004 and June 2013.
Actions to ensure such failings never happen again include:
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