Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what training is available for clinical reviewers for structured judgment reviews within NHS Trusts.

NHS Improvement, through the Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership, has commissioned the Royal College of Physicians to lead a programme of work to provide training in Structured Judgement Review (SJR) to staff in National Health Service trusts and NHS foundation trusts. The programme is supporting the Government’s published policy framework on learning from deaths. It uses a ‘train the trainer’ model so that those individuals sufficiently competent in SJR can provide further training to colleagues in their own organisations and elsewhere.

Around 300 trainers have been trained so far via sessions delivered throughout England, with at least four further training sessions to be delivered by February 2018.