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Written question asked by Lord Shipley (Liberal Democrat) on Thursday, 20 July 2023, in the House of Lords. It was due for an answer on Thursday, 3 August 2023. It was answered by Lord Markham (Conservative) on Monday, 31 July 2023 on behalf of the Department of Health and Social Care.


NHS Trusts: Standards

Question

To ask His Majesty's Government what is the national average for reports of duty of candour events as a percentage of active patients for NHS trusts.

Answer

NHS England cannot provide relevant information to these questions without creation of new data and analysis derived from manual clinical review or other processes. Arrangements for future reporting are being worked on and NHS England is undertaking a piece of work to understand the issues in homecare, so as to inform future improvement actions. A project by the National Homecare Medicines Committee to review the national Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) set is already underway with consultation due later this summer and final documents expected for approval in December 2023. Publication of performance against the KPIs is part of this project.

To monitor industry trends, the home care providers association, the National Clinical Homecare Association, aggregates all providers’ KPIs and they have provided written evidence to the House of Lords Public Services Committee as part of their current investigation into the Homecare Medicines service which has been published. This includes data on patient safety incidents and duty of candour reports, of which a copy is attached.


Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
HL9576
Session
2022-23
Attachment
Report Data
Grouped for answer
Yes
Subjects
Patients NHS trusts Standards
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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