Exclusive: NHS England attempted to alter independent report on child cancer care - Health Service Journal NHS England engaged in an unprecedented attempt to interfere with an independent clinical body’s report into child cancer services, seeking to have a recommendation on co-location of intensive care services removed, HSJ has learned.
The independent organisation NCEPOD, or National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death, has confirmed it was asked to remove a recommendation from a report published in December.
The charity’s chair Ian Martin told HSJ the body was concerned about the request “as it has never happened before” and he said it put the “independent clinical voice, on which we rely, at risk”.
It is the latest example of NHS England’s attempts to limit wider exposure of clinical concerns around co-location of intensive care services with child cancer units. HSJ
The independent organisation NCEPOD, or National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death, has confirmed it was asked to remove a recommendation from a report published in December.
The charity’s chair Ian Martin told HSJ the body was concerned about the request “as it has never happened before” and he said it put the “independent clinical voice, on which we rely, at risk”.
It is the latest example of NHS England’s attempts to limit wider exposure of clinical concerns around co-location of intensive care services with child cancer units. HSJ
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