Following communications sent to NHS Trusts in August, NHS Resolution has successfully transitioned to this improved distribution method for 2025. The 2025 Scorecards are now being distributed directly via secure email to Trust contacts, replacing our previous extranet-based system. Find out more about updates to our Scorecard distribution process.

In January 2025, NHS Resolution’s Advice service published our Fairness and Proportionality framework and accompanying resources. We invite our key stakeholders to complete this short survey to help us evaluate and refresh the framework to increase its value to both organisations and practitioners. Complete the survey.

NHS Resolution has launched the Performer and Healthcare Professional Check, giving healthcare organisations a faster, safer, and more reliable way to validate professional credentials. With instant results, improved governance, and overwhelmingly positive user feedback, the service is already strengthening patient safety and workforce assurance across the NHS. Find out more about the new service.

NHS England has introduced a nationwide improvement for qualifying perinatal event notifications, the SPEN portal. This system replaces the separate reporting platforms used by NHSR’s Early Notification scheme, MNSI, and MBRRACE-UK. SPEN is being rolled out in phases between 3 September and early November 2025. Read more about updates to the SPEN portal.

Watch Rineke Schram (Lead Assessment and Remediation Adviser) explain how maternity team reviews can help provide a better understanding of the barriers to resolving behavioural issues within a maternity team and improve multidisciplinary collaboration in this new video resource.

We have published our latest Insight paper: Trends from Practitioner Performance Advice’s support of the management of exclusions in England. This looks at episodes of formal exclusion in England that started in the financial years 2020/21 to 2024/25, where Advice was contacted to advise on the exclusion of a practitioner. Find out more about our key findings and recommended actions.