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Jeremy Hunt orders fresh consultation on rewriting NHS constitution













Mr Hunt, the Health Secretary, has confirmed that he will begin consultations later this year on changing the constitution following the scandal at Mid Staffordshire NHS trust, where up to 1,200 patients died needlessly.


Robert Francis, the chairman of the inquiry, said that one of his top priorities was for the NHS constitution to be rewritten, making it explicit that “patients are put first” and “everything done by the NHS should be informed by this ethos”.


He recommended that Mr Hunt also consider stipulating that NHS staff “put patients before themselves”.


After much wrangling behind the scenes at the Department of Health, a redrafted constitution was released last month.


However, it simply stated that the health service will “aspire” to put patients first as part of the principles that guide the NHS. It led to claims that Mr Hunt had defied the central recommendation of the Mid Staffordshire inquiry.

In comments to The Daily Telegraph, Mr Hunt insists that the newly published constitution includes a new clause about putting patients first.


He says: “Far from dropping any clause about putting patients first, the new constitution actively inserts such wording for the first time as one of the principles that guide the NHS.

“It is stated as an aspiration in that section and as a core value two pages later which says 'patients come first in everything we do’.”

The previous version of the constitution — deemed insufficient by Mr Francis — contained the phrase, “We put patients first in everything we do” as a core value. However, crucially it was not stated as one of the NHS’s key guiding principles.

The Health Secretary said that his department has so far implemented two of Mr Francis’s recommended changes to the constitution.

The first is that “the core values expressed in the NHS constitution should be given priority of place and the overriding value should be that patients are put first, and everything done by the NHS and everyone associated with it should be informed by this ethos”.

The second recommendations was that the “handbook to the NHS constitution should be revised to include a much more prominent reference to the NHS values and their significance”.

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