Duty of candour: Ministers to review varying application in health and care

The government is to launch a review into the variation in how open and transparent NHS and social care providers in England are with patients when things go wrong.In a written statement to the House of Commons the health minister Maria Caulfield said that the Department of Health and Social Care will lead a review into the “effectiveness of the statutory duty of candour for health and social care providers in England.”1The announcement was welcomed by the parliamentary and health service ombudsman, Rob Behrens, who said that the obligation was “not always implemented as it should be.”The duty of candour regulation came into force in November 2014 for NHS trusts and in 2015 for all other providers regulated by the Care Quality Commission. It requires providers to inform patients or families when a notifiable safety incident occurs, including an account of all known facts about the incident, and to give…
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