A Bill to establish the Health Service Safety Investigations Body and to confer the function of carrying out investigations and other functions on that body; to make provision in connection with investigations carried out by that body; to make provision about medical examiners; and for connected purposes
House of Lords
8 November 2019
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The bill would create a new Health Service Safety Investigations Body to investigate safety incidents in the NHS. It would give the body powers to carry out investigations and perform other related functions, plus set out how investigations and medical examiner work should be conducted. The aim is to improve patient safety by learning from incidents across the health service.
The bill is at the Lords stage, currently at the second reading (introduced in 2019). It would need to progress through further Lords stages and then move to the House of Commons for consideration.
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15 Oct 2019
29 Oct 2019
Second reading - the general debate on all aspects of the Bill - took place on 29 October.
Committee stage - line by line examination of the Bill - is yet to be scheduled.
The 2017-19 Parliament dissolved at the end of the 2019 Session and this Bill will make no further progress.
No recorded votes for this bill yet.
