# Thirlwall Inquiry: Implications for Defence Healthcare

> Public-source analysis of the Inquiry's recommendations, provisional Defence healthcare implications and specific checks for a separate internal policy review. This discovery file and Markdown alternates are derived aids. Registered official sources retain evidential authority.

Evidence was checked on 7 October 2026. All 17 recommendations are covered. Defence healthcare is the main scope, with wider Defence lessons where relevant. Do not infer a policy gap from absent public evidence. Do not treat an NHS-directed recommendation as a Defence legal duty without an applicability assessment.

Non-public Defence policy, internal clause references and internally validated gap findings remain outside this wiki. The internal-check page describes questions and evidence types only. Preserve source qualifications, currentness limits and the conflicting R12 pathology dates.

## Start here

- [Overview](index.md): Purpose and reading routes.
- [So what for Defence?](so-what/index.md): Provisional implications and proposed priorities.
- [All recommendations](recommendations/index.md): Recipients, milestones, relevance and limits.
- [Specific internal checks](internal-policy-checks/index.md): Separate review specification, including applicability first.
- [Public Defence comparison](defence-comparison/index.md): Current published comparators and precise references.
- [Method and boundaries](approach/index.md): Evidence states and scope decisions.

## Evidence and maintenance

- [Sources](sources/index.md): Stable source identities, versions and currentness caveats.
- [Evidence matrix](evidence-matrix/index.md): Supported claims and provisional inference.
- [Validation queue](validation-queue/index.md): Open source issues and parked internal work.
- [Research log](log/index.md): Scope decisions and research history.
- [Agent guide](llm-wiki/index.md): Read order, ingest, query, lint and authority.
- [Context map](llm-wiki/context-map/index.md): Smallest relevant reading set.
- [Maintenance](llm-wiki/maintenance/index.md): Preservation and verification workflow.
- [Project status](project/status/index.md): Bounded outstanding work.

For repository maintenance, read AGENTS.md, .wiki-standard.yaml and AUTHORING.md first. Preserve the immutable Standard pin and unknown OKF fields. Generated graphs and answers do not establish facts. Development responses use verified live canonical Wiki routes.