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Patient Safety Commissioner Publishes Impact Report I am delighted to announce the publication of the Patient Safety Commissioner Impact Report, which sets out the impact that the Patient Safety Commissioner has made over the first three years of the role. This report can be found here. Updates Secretary of State and Social Care reaffirms commitment [...]

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31 March 2025‘The Safety Gap must be closed’People with sensory impairment face challenges and no more so then when it comes to managing health conditions with devices that are not designed for them and medicines they have difficulty using. I have been contacted by many patients with vision or hearing loss who experience… Read more7 [...]

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Secretary of State and Social Care reaffirms commitment to respond to the Hughes report within this parliament2 April 2026The 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 [...]

Secretary of State and Social Care reaffirms commitment to respond to the Hughes report within this parliament

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 […]

Patient Safety Commissioner calls for urgent compensation for pelvic mesh and valproate patients

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 […]

Patient Safety Commissioner to approach Number 10 directly over redress delays

Patient Safety Commissioner Professor Henrietta Hughes has today announced she will approach Number 10 directly to secure financial redress for those harmed by pelvic mesh and the medicine valproate, following a Government update that provides no timetable for decisions on financial compensation. The announcement comes nearly two years after the publication of the Hughes Report in February 2024, which […]

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