News and communications

A new call for evidence launched today aims to capture and consider views about how the duty of candour is honoured, monitored and enforced.

• Updated: 16 April 2024

To strengthen safeguards, medical examiners will look at the cause of death in all cases that have not been referred to the coroner.

• Updated: 15 April 2024

Department of Health and Social Care publishes terms of reference for statutory inquiry following deaths of NHS mental health inpatients in Essex.

• Updated: 10 April 2024

4D mapping technology that detects falls using sensors and alerts carers is piloted in care homes.

• Updated: 18 March 2024

The investment will be provided over the next 3 years to ensure maternity services listen to and act on women’s experiences.

• Updated: 10 March 2024

The Healthcare Services Safety Investigations Body (HSSIB) has published its terms of reference in a bid to help improve patient, staff and community safety.

• Updated: 30 January 2024

Health and Social Care Secretary Victoria Atkins has ordered a special review into Nottinghamshire Healthcare Foundation Trust which treated Valdo Calocane.

• Updated: 29 January 2024

New measures to help protect the public and support bereaved families will be introduced in a revamp of how deaths are certified.

• Updated: 14 December 2023

Government to lay legislation this week to begin process of regulating physician associates and anaesthesia associates through the General Medical Council (GMC).

• Updated: 11 December 2023

Health and Social Care Secretary publishes terms of reference for inquiry following murders and attempted murders committed by former neonatal nurse Lucy Letby.

• Updated: 19 October 2023

The government is considering introducing regulations that would require some doctors and nurses to work during strikes, to protect patient safety.

• Updated: 19 September 2023

The Health and Social Care Secretary, Steve Barclay, spoke in the House of Commons to update on the Lucy Letby statutory inquiry.

• Updated: 4 September 2023

Health and Social Care Secretary Steve Barclay announces that the inquiry into the circumstances around crimes committed by Lucy Letby will become statutory.

• Updated: 30 August 2023

No action is currently needed from patients. No one should stop taking valproate without advice from their healthcare professional.

• Updated: 16 August 2023

Measures to be taken on a national level to further improve safety standards in maternity care.

• Updated: 20 July 2023

The government will provide a plan to promote cyber resilience across the health and care sectors by 2030, protecting both services and patients.

• Updated: 22 March 2023

Significant funding for research centres across the country to support the improved delivery of health and care services and ground-breaking new treatments.

• Updated: 14 October 2022

Health and Social Care Secretary Rt Hon Steve Barclay MP made a statement to the House of Commons on urgent and emergency care.

• Updated: 5 September 2022

Patient Safety and Primary Care Minister James Morris and Chief Midwifery Officer Professor Jacqueline Dunkley-Bent co-chaired the third meeting of the Maternity Disparities Taskforce.

• Updated: 20 July 2022

Dr Henrietta Hughes OBE appointed as the first ever Patient Safety Commissioner for England.

• Updated: 12 July 2022