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There is also a duty of candour referred to in various contexts as a professional, contractual or statutory duty, [3] which is imposed on all NHS and non-NHS providers of services to NHS patients in the UK to 'provide to the service user and any other relevant person all necessary support and all relevant information' in the event that a ...
Healthcare staff in Northern Ireland may be legally obliged to be open with patients and families when mistakes are made, under new duty of candour plans pledged by Health Minister Mike Nesbitt.
The “supposed” duty of candour in the NHS was “certainly not honoured” by the Countess of Chester Hospital, the parents of two triplet boys murdered by Lucy Letby have told a public inquiry.
A report found ‘institutional defensiveness’ remained a problem and said a statutory duty of candour should be considered. Government must go further to encourage candour, Hillsborough Law ...
The NMC's revised code became effective on 31 March 2015. The code contains professional standards of practice and behaviour that all nurses and midwives must keep to. Four key sections describe what nurses and midwives are expected to do: • prioritise people • practise effectively • preserve safety, and • promote professionalism and trust.
The standard also holds that each person owes a duty to behave as a reasonable person would under the same or similar circumstances. [10] [11] While the specific circumstances of each case will require varying kinds of conduct and degrees of care, the reasonable person standard undergoes no variation itself.
"Duty" by Edmund Leighton. A duty (from "due" meaning "that which is owing"; Old French: deu, did, past participle of devoir; Latin: debere, debitum, whence "debt") is a commitment or expectation to perform some action in general or if certain circumstances arise. A duty may arise from a system of ethics or morality, especially in an honor culture.
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