The Patient Safety Commissioner for England has today published her strategy for 2026-2028, setting out an ambitious programme of work to make medicines and medical devices safer and ensure patients’ voices shape decisions across the healthcare system. Building on the progress made during her first term, the strategy focuses on three interconnected priorities: improving safety […]
Today marks an important step towards ensuring AI is used safely, transparently and in a way people can trust across healthcare. The National Commission on the Regulation of AI in Healthcare has published its recommendations following the largest public engagement exercise of its kind ever undertaken in the UK on how healthcare technologies should be […]
Today, I am pleased to publish my Annual Report for 2025–26. I wanted to use this opportunity to reflect on the progress we have made but also the challenges that remain. As I look back, one theme stands out above all others: when we listen to patients, we make healthcare safer. Over the past […]
The Patient Safety Commissioner, Prof Henrietta Hughes, has written to No.10 to request further information in relation to the Hughes Report exercising her statutory powers under the Medicines and Medical Devices Act for the second time since her appointment. The deadline for a response to her request is 16 July. Specifically, Prof Hughes has asked […]
The Patient Safety Commissioner has continued to seek clarity from the Department of Health and Social Care on financial redress for the thousands of patients harmed by valproate and pelvic mesh. On 2 March 2026, the Commissioner wrote to the Secretary of State requesting an update on timelines for a compensation scheme and highlighting the […]
More than two years after the Hughes Report was published, the Government has yet to provide a clear timeline for implementing a compensation scheme for the thousands of patients harmed by pelvic mesh and valproate. Professor Hughes has described the delay as unacceptable, given the severity and scale of harm involved, and has written directly […]