Compassionate care in the NHS

Guidance and regulation

Adult social care outcomes framework: handbook of definitions
- Guidance
- 19 December 2024
- Department of Health and Social Care
No Secrets: guidance on protecting vulnerable adults in care
- Guidance
- 22 January 2015
- Department of Health and Social Care
National service framework: older people
- Guidance
- 10 March 2001
- Department of Health and Social Care
Culture change in the NHS
- Guidance
- 11 February 2015
- Department of Health and Social Care
Continuity of care when moving across borders within UK
- Guidance
- 26 March 2015
- Department of Health and Social Care

More than 100,000 baby loss certificates have now been issued
- 8 April 2025
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Press release
Assisted dying bill debate: advice to pharmacy professionals
- 20 November 2024
- Department of Health and Social Care, Welsh Government, The Scottish Government, and Department of Health (Northern Ireland)
- Correspondence
Assisted dying bill debate: advice to nurses and midwives
- 1 November 2024
- Department of Health and Social Care, Welsh Government, The Scottish Government, and Department of Health (Northern Ireland)
- Correspondence
Assisted dying bill debate: advice to doctors
- 16 October 2024
- Department of Health and Social Care, NHS England, Welsh Government, The Scottish Government, and Department of Health (Northern Ireland)
- Correspondence
Health and Social Care Secretary Sajid Javid opens new A&E
- 16 February 2022
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Press release

Pregnancy Loss Review
- 22 July 2023
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Independent report
Making Complaints Count: Supporting complaints handling in the NHS and UK Government Departments
- 15 July 2020
- The Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman
- Independent report
Establishing food standards for NHS hospitals
- 26 January 2017
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Independent report
Improving NHS staff engagement
- 15 July 2014
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Independent report
NHS Constitution: recommendations by Expert Advisory Group
- 10 June 2014
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Independent report

Government response to the independent Pregnancy Loss Review
- 22 July 2023
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Policy paper
NHS Outcomes Framework 2016 to 2017
- 1 April 2016
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Policy paper
Improvements to care in the last days and hours of life
- 13 August 2015
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Policy paper
2010 to 2015 government policy: compassionate care in the NHS
- 8 May 2015
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Policy paper
Government response to HSC report on NHS complaints
- 27 March 2015
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Policy paper

Selected summaries of investigations by the PHSO Dec '14-Jan '15
- 20 July 2015
- The Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman
- Transparency
Reports on the effect of the NHS Constitution: 2012 and 2015
- 1 July 2015
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Corporate report