Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has said 13 of Kate Lampard's recommendations will be accepted. All trusts are being asked to review their current practices within three months against the recommendations and provide details of their plans and progress.

A separate report by former barrister and NHS executive Kate Lampard into how Savile could have abused victims at 41 NHS hospitals, offered findings including:

• Elements of the Savile story could happen again, and there will always be people who try to gain undue influence within institutions such as hospitals

• Society has a "weakness for celebrities" and hospitals must be aware of the risks

• There is a "need for us to examine safeguarding arrangements in NHS hospitals, the raising of complaints and matters of concern, and how managers and staff respond to complaints"

A quick recap of the latest reports into abuse by Jimmy Savile before we bring this live page coverage to a close.

The Stoke Mandeville report found Savile was an "opportunistic predator" who, from 1968 to 1992, abused 63 people connected to the hospital who ranged in age from eight to 40. It said Savile's reputation as a "sex pest" was an "open secret" among junior staff and some middle managers. Several victims made informal complaints to staff but none was "taken seriously or escalated to senior management". One formal complaint was made in 1977 by the father of a victim and should have been reported to police. Senior management at the hospital were probably never told about Savile's inappropriate behaviour or about the sexual assault claims.

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Mr Burnham also called for the government to put into law Labour proposals to make staff in certain professions have a mandatory duty to report abuse to the police.

"None of today's reports suggest that anyone within government knew that Savile was a predatory sex abuser. But they are clear that in 'putting aside the policy and frameworks that existed, they helped create a situation where he could abuse," the BBC's Home editor writes.

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BBC Home editor Mark Easton writes in his blog: How could this be allowed to happen?

"The answers are many and various, today's investigation into his activities at Stoke Mandeville concludes, before adding that 'one of the most compelling is quite simply that the basic building blocks of legislation, policy and procedure designed to maintain both public safety and probity were bypassed'."

Shadow health secretary Andy Burnham told the Commons: "What changes today with the Stoke Mandeville report is that it is now no longer possible to say that while the abuse was widespread that it was not known to people in senior positions.

"Knowing what we now know we simply cannot just leave this here. Victims must have accountability and that must be our shared goal across this House," he said.

All trusts will be asked to review their current practices within three months against the recommendations and provide details of their plans and progress, Mr Hunt said.

A bit more on those 13 recommendations from Kate Lampard's report that Mr Hunt said the government would accept. They include trusts developing policies on visits by celebrities, internet and social media access and a review of voluntary service arrangements and safeguarding resources.

"The department, along with its arms-length bodies, will examine the possible development of a forum for NHS voluntary service managers, raising awareness of safeguarding referrals among NHS employers and to what extent NHS trust staff and volunteers should undergo refresher training and safeguarding," he added.

Mr Hunt was responding to shadow health secretary Andy Burnham, who spoke in the Commons of the need to help the victims. "Can you say more about whether the value left in Savile's estate is anywhere near enough to provide adequate compensation to the very many victims of his abuse?

"And can you say whether you have made any judgment yet on whether there is a need for public funding to help compensate his victims?", Mr Burnham had asked.

£4m will be made available for compensation claims by Jimmy Savile's victims, Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has announced, saying the money from Savile's estate and the serial sex abuser's charities will be made available for claims from his victims.

If that money is exhausted claims could be funded from the public purse, he added.

Savile's abuse was thought to have begun in the mid-1940s, when he was in his late teens or early 20s, and lasted until 2009, two years before his death. As the latest round of reports into his sexual behaviour at NHS hospitals are published, the BBC looks at the background to the abuse scandal surrounding him.

The subject of these investigations, Jimmy Savile, died in 2011 a year before he was exposed as a paedophile. Here's a profile of the former DJ and TV presenter.

A bit more from Mr Burnham in the Commons earlier: "It literally beggars belief, that abuse on this scale known to so many people was allowed to go on for so long. But as the analysis of what happened becomes more complete, and the full picture emerges, the question that will be growing in the minds of people hearing this news today is this - where is the accountability?"

On Stoke Mandeville, Mr Hunt said there were no suggestions ministers or officials knew about Savile's activities but accepted governance processes were not followed.

He said ministers made the expedient decision to use Savile not just to raise funds to redevelop Stoke Mandeville's national spinal injuries centre but to oversee the building and running of the centre even though he had "no relevant experience".

Making a statement in the Commons earlier, Mr Hunt also said three new investigations were under way at Humber NHS Trust, Mersey Care NHS Trust and Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust. "Any further allegations received will of course be investigated as serious incidents," he added.

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Health editor

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This is a "dark chapter" of the history of the NHS and our country, the shadow health secretary says.

Mr Burnham says he wants to know that every possible step is being taken to make sure that volunteers or fundraisers in hospitals are properly vetted.