Consultation outcome

Rapid resolution and redress scheme for severe birth injury

• From: Department of Health and Social Care
• Published: 2 March 2017
• Last updated: 1 December 2017 — See all updates

This was published under the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government

This consultation has concluded

Read the full outcome

Rapid resolution and redress scheme for severe birth injury: consultation response

PDF, 231 KB, 34 pages

Detail of outcome

Over 200 unique responses were received, from stakeholders including:

• family members with personal experience of birth injury
• the organisations that support them
• frontline clinical and legal professionals

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Original consultation

Summary

Seeks views on the proposed investigations into severe avoidable birth injury and the support and compensation scheme.

This consultation was held on another website.

This consultation ran from
9am on 2 March 2017 to 11:45pm on 26 May 2017

Consultation description

The rapid resolution and redress scheme (RRR) aims to introduce a system of consistent and independent investigations for all instances where there may be severe avoidable birth injury, along with access to ongoing support and compensation for eligible babies through an administrative scheme.

The main aims are:

• reducing the number of severe avoidable birth injuries by encouraging a learning culture
• improving the experience of families and clinicians when harm has occurred
• making more effective use of NHS resources

This consultation seeks views about the proposed scheme, including:

• how the scheme is administered
• the eligibility threshold for compensation
• how learning would best be shared and acted on to reduce future harm

This consultation is accompanied by a consultation-stage impact assessment and 2 independent research reports that were commissioned by the department to inform the early stages of policy development in preparing for the consultation.

Documents

A rapid resolution and redress scheme for severe avoidable birth injury: a consultation

PDF, 871 KB, 42 pages

A rapid resolution and redress scheme for severe avoidable birth injury: impact assessment

PDF, 3.39 MB, 83 pages

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DH birth injury compensation policy research

PDF, 1.61 MB, 74 pages

No-Fault Compensation Schemes: review

PDF, 1.68 MB, 87 pages

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Published 2 March 2017
Last updated 1 December 2017 + show all updates

1. 1 December 2017

   Added consultation responses.

2. 2 March 2017

   First published.