Here you can browse the report together with the Proceedings of the Committee. The published report was ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 10 September 2013.
Terms of Reference
Summary
1 Introduction
The Francis Report and its significance
The Francis recommendations and subsequent reviews and responses
The Committee's inquiry
Parliamentary oversight of professional regulation
2 An open and transparent NHS
Open culture and professional responsibility
The existing duty and practice of candour in the NHS
Accountability of commissioners
The NHS Constitution
The Francis recommendations
Reactions to the Francis recommendations
The role of criminal sanctions for individuals and healthcare organisations
3 Raising concerns and resolving disputes
The Francis Report and whistleblowers
Compromise agreements, gagging clauses and special severance payments
Compromise agreements at the Care Quality Commission
Compromise agreements and severance payments
The case of Gary Walker
Establishing a culture which is comfortable with challenge
4 The NHS and its patients
Fundamental standards of healthcare
Criminally negligent practice
Standards on care at the end of life
The National Patient Safety Agency
Feedback and complaints
5 Nursing and healthcare assistant staff in the NHS
Staffing ratios and patient care
Training and status of nurses
Nursing care for the elderly: the registered older person's nurse
Training and regulation of healthcare assistants
6 The future of regulation
Regulating the system: the future of the CQC and Monitor
Inspecting the system: a Chief Inspector of Hospitals
Regulating professionals
Death certification reform
Annex: The case of Mr Gary Walker, former Chief Executive of the United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust
The Committee's approach
Outline of the issues
The compromise agreement, the "gagging clause" and the threat to Mr Walker
Appendix 1: Correspondence between the Committee Chair and the incoming Chair of the Care Quality Commission
Appendix 2: Implementing Safe Nurse Staffing in an NHS organisation: briefing note from the Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust
Conclusions and recommendations
Formal Minutes
Witnesses
List of printed written evidence
List of Reports from the Committee during the current Parliament
Oral and written evidence
Tuesday 12 February 2013: Robert Francis QC, Chairman, The Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust Public Inquiry
Tuesday 5 March 2013: Sir David Nicholson KCB CBE, Chief Executive, and Professor Sir Bruce Keogh KBE, Medical Director, National Health Service (England), and Liz Redfern CBE, Director of Nursing, NHS South of England.
Tuesday 19 March 2013: Gary Walker, former Chief Executive of the United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust, and David Bowles, former Chair of the United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust.
Tuesday 23 April 2013: Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP, Secretary of State for Health, and Una O’Brien CB, Permanent Secretary, Department of Health.
Written evidence
