Health Service Safety Investigations Bill (2019)

The Bill would have made the Health Service Safety Investigations Branch a statutory independent body, responsible for investigating patient safety incidents in NHS services in England.

We want to make sure that healthcare providers treat people with protected characteristics in a safe and respectful way.

The Bill should be amended to:

• highlight the importance of investigating systemic failings and learning lessons
• extend the powers of the new body to include private hospitals
• make sure that the new body’s powers are strong enough and that its investigators are independent
• make the new body subject to the Public Sector Equality Duty