Health secretary Alan Johnson announced the measures on Monday (1 December), following the publication of Ofsted's inspection of safeguarding in Haringey.
The commission will also review the role of four local NHS organisations in Haringey to look at the communication between healthcare professionals and the agencies' awareness of child protection procedures.
Anna Walker, chief executive of the Healthcare Commission, said that lessons must be fully learned and acted upon from the failings listed in the report.
Additionally, the NHS has been asked to review its child protection arrangements, to ensure that a similar case never happens again.
Johnson said Ofsted's report highlighted "clear" and "unacceptable" failures by NHS organisations in the London borough to communicate properly and share information and expertise. Inspectors said reviews into the death of Baby P provided by some healthcare agenices were inadequate, that some accident and emergency staff were not clear enough about how to find out if a child was on a child protection plan, and that there were severe shortages of community nursing and child and adolescent mental health service staff.
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