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	registered interest
	date	14/10/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Patients: Safety
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what research is being undertaken to establish the impact of the safeguarding policy for patients on the behaviour of nurses in attending to the needs of patients.
	tabling member printed	Lord Mawson
	uin	HL2613
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2015 answer text <p>No central research has been commissioned to assess the impact of safeguarding policies for patients on the behaviour of nurses in attending to the needs of patients. Research may have been commissioned at a local level; however, this data is not collected centrally.</p><br /><p>The Care Act 2014, which placed adult safeguarding on a statutory footing for the first time, made clear the responsibilities of agencies in relation to adult safeguarding with a greater focus on the prevention of abuse and neglect.</p><br /><p>The Department is clear in statutory guidance supporting the Care Act that workers across a wide range of organisations, and not just those in frontline health and social care roles, need to be vigilant on behalf of those unable to protect themselves.</p><br /><p>Commissioners and providers will have clear policies and procedures that set out the roles of nurses and all other staff in relation to safeguarding and the training and support that is required in order for them to fulfil those roles.</p><br /><p>The Department and NHS England’s Compassion in Practice nursing strategy was published in December 2012 and is based around six core values: Care, Compassion, Competence, Communication, Courage, and Commitment. The vision aims to embed these values, known as the 6C’s, in all nursing, midwifery and care-giving settings throughout the NHS and social care to improve care for patients. A copy of the strategy is attached and can be found at:</p><br /><p><a href="http://www.england.nhs.uk/nursingvision/" target="_blank">http://www.england.nhs.uk/nursingvision/</a></p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 28/10/2015 12:21:43 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton attachment 1 file name compassion-in-practice.pdf title Compassion in Practice
	tabling member	3830 label Biography information for Lord Mawson

229164

	registered interest
	date	23/03/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Patients: Safety
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the effect of the abolition of the Patient Safety Agency and the transfer of its responsibility for the National Reporting and Learning System to NHS England on the number of patient safety alerts issued between June 2012 and December 2013.
	tabling member constituency	Oldham East and Saddleworth
	tabling member printed	Debbie Abrahams
	uin	228685
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2015 answer text <p>Responsibility for issuing patient safety advice to the healthcare system in the form of patient safety alerts transferred from the National Patient Safety Agency to NHS England in June 2012. Between June 2012 – December 2013 one Patient Safety Alert (NHS/PSA/W/2013/001: ‘Placement devices for nasogastric tube insertion DO NOT replace initial position checks’) was issued on 5 December 2013. To date, all providers have reported this alert as either ‘complete’ or ‘action not required’.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>During the period in question NHS England maintained a constant review of patient safety incidents reported to the National Reporting and Learning System involving death and severe harm and, had an urgent patient safety issue needing alerting been identified, an alert would have been issued.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 26/03/2015 14:20:27 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
	tabling member	4212 label Biography information for Debbie Abrahams

228872

	registered interest
	date	20/03/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Patients: Safety
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether face-down physical restraint is included in the list of never ever events that must be reported to the Strategic Executive Information System.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
	tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
	uin	228605
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2015 answer text <p>Face-down physical restraint is not included in the list of Never Events contained within the Never Events Framework that must be reported to the Strategic Executive Information System.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Use of face-down restraint is, however, a patient safety incident that should be reported and submitted to the National Reporting and Learning System. Any serious harm resulting from the use of face-down restraint would be reportable to the Strategic Executive Information System as a Serious Incident.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 25/03/2015 12:42:02 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
	tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

228161

	registered interest
	date	18/03/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Patients: Safety
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to his Department's recent report, Culture change in the NHS, Cm 9009, whether he plans to place responsibility for patient safety alerts within (a) NHS England or (b) an arms-length organisation.
	tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
	tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
	uin	228119
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2015 answer text <p>Healthcare providers are expected to implement all the actions contained in a patient safety alert that are relevant to them and ensure that all relevant parts of their organisation and staff are aware of the information and/or the required changes. Providers should be scrutinising the implementation of their alerts and satisfying themselves that the alerts are complete by the designated deadline.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>NHS England publishes monthly data about any trusts who have failed to declare compliance with stage one, two, or three of the National Patient Safety Alerting System’s (NaPSAS) alerts by their set due date. Provider compliance should also be an integral part of the commissioners’ responsibilities for improving quality.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>As part of its inspections, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) looks at how providers respond to patient safety alerts as evidence of how effectively they manage and address safety concerns, and how they use this as learning to improve their safety systems and processes. CQC is continuing to develop and embed its approach to the use of data and intelligence across all the sectors it regulates as an integral part of its new approach to inspections, and has given greater prominence to safety alerts in its revised surveillance model. CQC’s Intelligent Monitoring system for the Acute Sector includes a composite indicator around completion of safety alerts and CQC is currently considering whether this can be implemented for the other sectors it regulates. This contributes to providers’ overall risk scores, which inform both the scheduling and prioritisation of inspections and the identification of focus areas for inspections.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Monitor is responsible for ensuring NHS foundation trusts are well-led so that they can provide quality care on a sustainable basis and would expect to be alerted by their providers of anything that might have a bearing on compliance with their licence including where there are significant issues regarding compliance with patient safety alerts. The NHS Trust Development Authority (TDA), as part of its oversight and escalation process, uses quality surveillance monitoring which it reviews on a monthly basis and which it uses to hold trusts to account for the timely compliance with alerts. This is undertaken via the TDA’s regular integrated delivery meetings with the trusts.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Government has agreed to consider with relevant organisations the options for transferring NHS England’s responsibilities for safety to a single national body and this will include responsibility for patent safety alerts. No decision has yet been taken about the specific functions to be transferred and until such time, NHS England will continue to be responsible for these functions.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter grouped question UIN 228067 228068 question first answered 23/03/2015 17:55:34 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
	tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

228187

	registered interest
	date	18/03/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Patients: Safety
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many NHS trusts and foundation trusts have had action taken against them for not implementing guidance from patient safety alerts since May 2010; and what action was taken in each such case.
	tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
	tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
	uin	228067
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2015 answer text <p>Healthcare providers are expected to implement all the actions contained in a patient safety alert that are relevant to them and ensure that all relevant parts of their organisation and staff are aware of the information and/or the required changes. Providers should be scrutinising the implementation of their alerts and satisfying themselves that the alerts are complete by the designated deadline.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>NHS England publishes monthly data about any trusts who have failed to declare compliance with stage one, two, or three of the National Patient Safety Alerting System’s (NaPSAS) alerts by their set due date. Provider compliance should also be an integral part of the commissioners’ responsibilities for improving quality.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>As part of its inspections, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) looks at how providers respond to patient safety alerts as evidence of how effectively they manage and address safety concerns, and how they use this as learning to improve their safety systems and processes. CQC is continuing to develop and embed its approach to the use of data and intelligence across all the sectors it regulates as an integral part of its new approach to inspections, and has given greater prominence to safety alerts in its revised surveillance model. CQC’s Intelligent Monitoring system for the Acute Sector includes a composite indicator around completion of safety alerts and CQC is currently considering whether this can be implemented for the other sectors it regulates. This contributes to providers’ overall risk scores, which inform both the scheduling and prioritisation of inspections and the identification of focus areas for inspections.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Monitor is responsible for ensuring NHS foundation trusts are well-led so that they can provide quality care on a sustainable basis and would expect to be alerted by their providers of anything that might have a bearing on compliance with their licence including where there are significant issues regarding compliance with patient safety alerts. The NHS Trust Development Authority (TDA), as part of its oversight and escalation process, uses quality surveillance monitoring which it reviews on a monthly basis and which it uses to hold trusts to account for the timely compliance with alerts. This is undertaken via the TDA’s regular integrated delivery meetings with the trusts.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Government has agreed to consider with relevant organisations the options for transferring NHS England’s responsibilities for safety to a single national body and this will include responsibility for patent safety alerts. No decision has yet been taken about the specific functions to be transferred and until such time, NHS England will continue to be responsible for these functions.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter grouped question UIN 228068 228119 question first answered 23/03/2015 17:55:34 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
	tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

228188

	registered interest
	date	18/03/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Patients: Safety
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans (a) his Department, (b) NHS England and (c) the Care Quality Commission have to ensure that patient safety alert guidance is implemented; and how his Department plans to monitor compliance with that guidance.
	tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
	tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
	uin	228068
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2015 answer text <p>Healthcare providers are expected to implement all the actions contained in a patient safety alert that are relevant to them and ensure that all relevant parts of their organisation and staff are aware of the information and/or the required changes. Providers should be scrutinising the implementation of their alerts and satisfying themselves that the alerts are complete by the designated deadline.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>NHS England publishes monthly data about any trusts who have failed to declare compliance with stage one, two, or three of the National Patient Safety Alerting System’s (NaPSAS) alerts by their set due date. Provider compliance should also be an integral part of the commissioners’ responsibilities for improving quality.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>As part of its inspections, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) looks at how providers respond to patient safety alerts as evidence of how effectively they manage and address safety concerns, and how they use this as learning to improve their safety systems and processes. CQC is continuing to develop and embed its approach to the use of data and intelligence across all the sectors it regulates as an integral part of its new approach to inspections, and has given greater prominence to safety alerts in its revised surveillance model. CQC’s Intelligent Monitoring system for the Acute Sector includes a composite indicator around completion of safety alerts and CQC is currently considering whether this can be implemented for the other sectors it regulates. This contributes to providers’ overall risk scores, which inform both the scheduling and prioritisation of inspections and the identification of focus areas for inspections.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Monitor is responsible for ensuring NHS foundation trusts are well-led so that they can provide quality care on a sustainable basis and would expect to be alerted by their providers of anything that might have a bearing on compliance with their licence including where there are significant issues regarding compliance with patient safety alerts. The NHS Trust Development Authority (TDA), as part of its oversight and escalation process, uses quality surveillance monitoring which it reviews on a monthly basis and which it uses to hold trusts to account for the timely compliance with alerts. This is undertaken via the TDA’s regular integrated delivery meetings with the trusts.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Government has agreed to consider with relevant organisations the options for transferring NHS England’s responsibilities for safety to a single national body and this will include responsibility for patent safety alerts. No decision has yet been taken about the specific functions to be transferred and until such time, NHS England will continue to be responsible for these functions.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter grouped question UIN 228067 228119 question first answered 23/03/2015 17:55:34 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
	tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

227871

	registered interest
	date	17/03/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Patients: Safety
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many Never events were investigated by NHS England in each year since 2012; how many and what proportion of those events related to mental health patients; what criteria NHS England uses to investigate incidents reported to the Strategic Executive Information System; and what mechanisms exist to ensure that actions and recommendations relating to the investigation of such incidents are implemented locally.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
	tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
	uin	227903
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2015 answer text <p>NHS England does not investigate individual ‘never events’ since this is the responsibility of the provider of care within which the serious incident occurred.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Never events are types of Serious Incidents as defined by the Serious Incident Framework (available online at: <a href="http://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/sif-guide.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/sif-guide.pdf</a>) and must be reported to the Strategic Executive Information System (STEIS) and investigated in accordance with this Framework. There are 25 never events categories defined in the current list within the companion Never Events Policy Framework which is available online at:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/healthcare-never-events-policy-framework-update" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/healthcare-never-events-policy-framework-update</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The number of never events reported is published monthly by category on NHS England’s website:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.england.nhs.uk/ourwork/patientsafety/never-events/ne-data/" target="_blank">http://www.england.nhs.uk/ourwork/patientsafety/never-events/ne-data/</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Although there are two never event categories directly relevant to mental health (13. ‘Suicide using non-collapsible rails’ and 14. ‘Escape of a transferred prisoner’), never event reports are not classified by care setting.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>There were 338 never events reported to the STEIS in financial year 2013/14, one of which involved the escape of a transferred patient from a mental health facility. In 2012/13 290 never events were reported to STEIS, one of which again involved the escape of a transferred patient from a mental health facility. There were no reports in either year associated with the category ‘suicide using a collapsible rail’. Mental health patients may have experienced never events in other categories.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>As described within the Serious Incident Framework, it is the provider of the care, within which the serious incident occurred, that is responsible for reporting, investigating and responding to the serious incident. Commissioners are accountable for quality-assuring the robustness of their providers’ investigations and the development and implementation of effective actions by the provider, to prevent recurrence of similar incidents. Serious incident investigations should be closed by the relevant commissioner when they are satisfied that the investigation report and action plan meet the required standard. Providers and commissioners are expected to establish mechanisms for monitoring on-going or long-term actions to ensure they are fully implemented.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 23/03/2015 17:53:29 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
	tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

227872

	registered interest
	date	17/03/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Patients: Safety
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many categories of a Never ever event there are which must be reported to the Strategic Executive Information System; and how many and what proportion of those categories are relevant to mental health.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
	tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
	uin	227904
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2015 answer text <p>There are 25 serious incident categories classified as ‘never events’. All of these incidents must be reported to the Strategic Executive Information System. A never event is a serious, largely preventable patient safety incident that should not occur if the available preventative measures are implemented. Although there are two never event categories which are directly relevant to mental health (<em>13.</em> <em>Suicide using non-collapsible rails</em> and <em>14.</em> <em>Escape of a transferred prisoner</em>) never event reports are not classified by care setting.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 23/03/2015 17:54:24 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
	tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

225215

	registered interest
	date	04/03/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Patients: Safety
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many and what proportion of NHS staff have signed up to the five NHS Sign up to Safety pledges.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
	tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
	uin	226441
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2015 answer text <p>To date 236 organisations from across the National Health Service in England have signed up to the campaign and made their five pledges on behalf of all of their members of staff. This includes 86% of acute, 68% of community and 54% of mental health providers and 50% of ambulance trusts plus a range of other health related organisations at frontline regional and national level<strong>*</strong>.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Individuals everywhere are also able to sign up to the campaign and make their own pledges online. Currently we have around 250 individuals who have done this so far from a wide variety of organisation types. The campaign has focused in its first year on engaging organisations and in its second year will focus on individual involvement.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Organisations who have joined the Sign up to Safety community commit to turning their five pledges into a personalised Safety Improvement Plan. These plans are derived from working with their staff on what matters to them and sets out their ambition and focus for the next three years for how their staff will take action to support the NHS shared goal of halving avoidable harm and saving lives.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong>*</strong>Percentage figures derive from publicly available numbers from 2013, accessible on the NHS Confederation’s website.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 09/03/2015 15:59:39 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
	tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

178541

	registered interest
	date	09/02/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Patients: Safety
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to Patient Safety Alert: Improving medication error incident reporting and learning, published by NHS England on 20 March 2014, which NHS trusts have (a) indentified a board-level director with responsibility for overseeing medication error incident reporting and learning, (b) e-mailed the contact details of a Medication Safety Officer to the Central Alerting System and (c) identified a multi-professional group to regularly review medication error incident reports.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne North
	tabling member printed	Catherine McKinnell
	uin	223770
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2015 answer text <p>Data was extracted on 10 February 2015 from the Central Alerting System (CAS) and the table attached shows that 244 trusts* have recorded that they have completed the actions required by the Alert including the information requested above.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><em>*Note:</em> This figure is based on the names that trusts are registered under in CAS.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 24/02/2015 14:27:11 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter attachment 1 file name Table of actions.docx title CAS- Trusts with contact details&completed actions
	tabling member	4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell