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That was not a distraction tactic.The section 104 order will shortly be laid before the Westminster Parliament and will come into force at the same time as the regulations—we need it for the go-live date in June. The instruments are being sequenced to ensure that we have as smooth a transition as possible and that children who go to England and Wales or oth...
I agree with Mary Scanlon that it is bizarre that an organisation has a target with an expiry date but, when it does not achieve it, it just gives up on it.
The information should be sufficient to identify those people (for example name, address and date of birth) and should record whether a person wants to donate organs or tissue and, if so, which organs or tissue.
The first is a review of the care of children who had bloodstream infections from 2015 to date. The second step is improvement in the quality of governance of infection prevention and control.
One of the reasons why IT systems have failed might be that, across the NHS, out-of-date software is still being used. How will the continuing work programme that the cabinet secretary referred to in her statement ensure that systems not only are upgraded now but continue to be kept up to date in the future?
We expect the terms of reference for the JMC(EN) to be honoured and we will see in time whether we believe that that is happening, although progress to date has been slower than we would have wished.