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Role of Clinical Assessors

2.28 The role of the clinical assessors is to advise the panel, as and when required, on those aspects of the complaint involving clinical judgement having regard to this guidance and the advice of their professional body. Ideally, the assessors should provide an agreed report. This report should be in 2 parts:

1. a summary report excluding all personal clinical details relative to the patient;

2. a confidential annex which incorporates any personal clinical information which the clinical assessors feel is essential to make sense of the complaint.

The confidential annex will only be made available to the panel members, the complainant, the patient, if a different person from the complainant and alive and competent to receive it, and the complained against but to no-one else (see Annex 2D).

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